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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the sire's estate

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Putney in Surrey (now Greater London), named in Old English with the genitive of Putta, a personal name, or putta ‘kite’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘land hemmed in by water or marsh’.

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