Last name: PUTNAM
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PUTNAM : This last name is indexed 135,669 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PUTNAM : English (Middlesex and Buckinghamshire): habitational name from either of two places in Hertfordshire and Surrey called Puttenham from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
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