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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Pütt) : habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland, Westphalia, and Pomerania, but in most cases a topographic name from Middle Low German putte ‘pit’, ‘well’, ‘puddle’, ‘pond’.

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