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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker or seller of pottage, from Middle English, Old French potagier (an agent noun from potage ‘stew’, ‘thick soup’), with an intrusive -n-.
  • English and Scottish : occupational name from Old French potecaire ‘apothecary’.
  • German : possibly a habitational name from a place called Potting in Bavaria.

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