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polite Name Meaning and History

French: from a short form of the personal name Hippolyte (see Hypolite).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of polite Families in the US in 1920
Number of polite families
 82-161
 28-81
 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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