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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Lincolnshire) : variant of Pottinger.
  • German : habitational name for someone from any of the places named Petting or Pötting in eastern Bavaria.
  • German (Böttinger) : habitational name for someone from any of four places in Württemberg called Böttingen.

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