Pot Family History
Pot Name Meaning
French and Walloon: from the personal name Pot an Old French short form of Philipot itself a pet form of Philip . French and Walloon: metonymic occupational name for a potter from pot ‘pot’. Flemish and Dutch: variant of Pott Dutch (Van der Pot): topographic name for someone living on a low-lying plot from Low German dialect pōt ‘puddle’. English: very rare variant of Pott including as a cognate of 1 above. Cambodian: written ពត unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022