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duty Name Meaning and History

  1. English: unexplained.
  2. Possibly a Americanized spelling of French Duthie or Dutey, both variants of Dutil, or a translation of French Dudevoir, which is probably a dit-name in origin, from one of the regiments that served in New France, perhaps a nickname for someone obsessed with duty.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of duty Families in the US in 1920
Number of duty families
 33-64
 12-32		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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