Last name: FOOTE

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FOOTE : This last name is indexed 112,491 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

FOOTE : 1: English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt) sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.2: English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot from Old Norse Fótr originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.3: English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

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