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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van de Putte) : habitational name for someone from any of various places called (Ten) Putte, in Belgium and the Netherlands, from Middle Dutch putte ‘well’, ‘pit’, or a topographic name for someone living beside a pit or a well.

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