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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived on a small plot of land, from late Old English plot.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a fence maker or carpenter, from Slavic ‘fence’ (Polish płot, Russian plot). Compare Plotnik.

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