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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from an Old English personal name or byname Tutta, preserved in place names such as Tutnall (Worcestershire) and Tuttington (Norfolk), and apparently persisting into the Middle Ages. Its origin and meaning are unclear.
  • German (also Tütt) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Diet- (see Dietrich), or from a short form of Dudo, originally a name from nursery talk.

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