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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : topographic name for someone who lived in a broad valley, from Old English botm ‘valley bottom’.
  • In some cases, a mistranslation of French Lafond, in which Old French la fond ‘fountain’ is confused with modern French le fond ‘the bottom’.

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