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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone who was born at Whitsuntide or had some particular connection with that time of year, such as owing a feudal obligation then. The name is from Middle English, Old French pentecost, from Greek pentēkostē (hēmera) ‘fiftieth (day)’, i.e. the fiftieth day after Easter.

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