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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : from puig ‘hill(ock)’ (Latin podium ‘platform’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived at a high place, or habitational name from any of the numerous places in Catalonia named with this word.

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