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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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Threads: 26 - Messages: 72
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Polite Families Polite 32
Polite Family in South Ga Rickie 1
Italian POLITE Families CodyBollman 1
Polite family in Delaware andreamccarty17 0
Polite ginnymiller135 0
politi family elvamonti 0
PLEASE HELP!! Joseph C. POLITE, Carl J. POLITE, Carmelo POLITE, Know of them??? CodyBollman 2
Louis Polite rperkin41 0
Searching for family members Nelson M Polite Sr 4
My father's family Theresa Zeak 1
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