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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Somerset) : nickname for someone with a peculiarity or deformity of the foot, from Middle English fot (Old English fōt), or in some cases from the cognate Old Norse byname Fótr.
  • English (Somerset) : topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

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