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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from either of two Norman personal names: Otoïs, composed of the Germanic elements od ‘prosperity’, ‘riches’ + widis (from wid ‘wide’ or witu ‘wood’), or Otewi, in which the second element is wīg ‘war’.

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