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Pottinger Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker or seller
of pottage, from Middle English, Old French potagier (an agent
noun from potage ‘stew’, ‘thick soup’), with an intrusive
-n-.English and Scottish: occupational name from
Old French potecaire ‘apothecary’.German: possibly a
habitational name from a place called Potting in Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pottinger Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pottinger families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pottinger families
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52 - 101 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pottinger families
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74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pottinger Family Origin
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Pottinger Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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