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pettis Name Meaning and History

English: From the possessive or plural form of Middle English pytte, pitte ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Pett in East Sussex.

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Distribution of pettis Families in the US in 1920
Number of pettis families
 35-68
 12-34
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Z.T. Pettis (Zach, Zack, Zachariah, Zacariah) in Mississippi iriscristata 1
Pettis in MS and AL tmdethloff 2
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Pettis Family, Missouri william Rogers 2
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