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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southeast) : variant of Pitt.
  • French : from a Germanic personal name, Petto or Betto, a short form of any of the various compound names formed with berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’ as the first element.

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