Pott Family History
Pott Name Meaning
English: from a medieval personal name, a short form of Philpott.English: topographic name for someone who lived by a depression in the ground, from Middle English pot ‘drinking or storage vessel’ used in this transferred sense, or a habitational name from one of the minor places deriving their name from this word, in the sense ‘pit’, ‘hole’.English and North German (Lower Rhine-Westphalia): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle English, Middle Low German pot ‘pot’. See also Potter.North German: topographic name for someone living on a low-lying plot, from Low German dialect pot ‘puddle’.
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Name Distribution of Pott Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pott families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pott families
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75 - 147 26 - 74 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pott families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pott Family Origin
Pott Immigration Information
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Pott Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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