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Origin and popularity of the name POTTER

Origin

Potter : 1: English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels from an agent derivative of Middle English Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.2: In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian Serbian and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar) and probably also of cognates from some other languages e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir).

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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England

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