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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name for someone from either of two places called Putten, in Gelderland and North Brabant. The former was the home of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, founder and patron of Rensselaerswijck on the upper Hudson.

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