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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : said to be a variant of Doty.
  • English : Perhaps an altered spelling of English Dotten, a habitational name from Dotton Farm in Colaton Raleigh, Devon, named in Old English as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Dudda’, or from Dutton in Lancashire, ‘Dudda’s settlement’.

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