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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place called Northfleet in Kent, from north + Old English flēot ‘stream’ or ‘estuary’.
  • Thomas Norfleet, from Kent, England, was in VA by 1666.

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