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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands, named in Old English as ‘homestead (hām) of Snot’s people’. The initial S- was lost in the 12th century, due to the influence of Anglo-Norman French (the combination sn- is alien to French).

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