Last name: FLETT
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FLETT : This last name is indexed 18,109 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FLETT : Scottish: probably a habitational name from a place in the parish of Delting Shetland named with an Old Norse term denoting a strip of arable land or pasture. On the other hand it may be from the Old Norse byname Fljótr ‘swift speedy’. Compare Fleet 2. The surname is now most common in Banffshire and Orkney.
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