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bettencourt Name Meaning and History

French: habitational name from any of various places so called, with minor variations in spelling, of which the main one is in Somme. They are named with a Germanic personal name Betto (an assimilated form of Berto (see Bert) + Old French court ‘farm(yard)’). The name is now very frequent in Portugal, where it first occurred in the 15th century (see Betancourt).

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Distribution of bettencourt Families in the US in 1920
Number of bettencourt families
 180-358
 61-179		 1-60
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Westport,Mass. Bettencourt Bob Bettencourt 1
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