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potter Name Meaning and History

English, Dutch, and North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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potter Family Facts

Distribution of potter Families in the US in 1920
Number of potter families
 716-1429
 239-715
 1-238
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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