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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : of uncertain origin. It may be an altered form of Pertuis, a topographic name from Late Latin pertusium ‘hole’, ‘tunnel’. Alternatively, it may be an altered form of Perduit, which according to Morlet is an occupational name for a guide, from the past participle of Occitan perduire ‘to lead through’, Late Latin perducere.

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