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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