PUTTICK
Puttick is a surname of English origin that has been recorded in the medieval period and has persisted into modern times.
The name is believed to have arisen as a patronymic derivative of the Old English personal name Putta plus the suffix -ic, which denotes “son of.” In this construction the name originally identified the offspring of an individual named Putta. The personal name Putta is thought to have been a nickname for a person of small stature or shortness.
Alternatively, the surname may trace back to an older Old English term, puttocke, meaning “kite” – a bird of prey – which was used as a nickname for a rapacious or ravenous man. Such nickname‑derived surnames were common in the Middle Ages, and many contemporary surnames can be linked to medieval personal characteristics.
Variant spellings of the name include Puttock, Puttack, Puttuck and Pottock. The earliest surviving reference dates to 1034, when the name appears as Aelfricus Puttuc in the records of the reign of King Canute, the Danish monarch of England from 1016 to 1035.
Later documentary evidence places the surname in the Domesday Book of 1086, where an Aluied Pottoch is noted in Somerset. In 1148 the name appears as Edricus Puttuc in Hampshire’s Liber Wintoniensis, and in 1176 a John Puttok is recorded in the Hertfordshire Pipe Rolls.
By the early modern period the spelling had stabilised as Puttick. A notable civil record from 1681 shows Patience Putticke marrying Robert Tiras at St. James, Dukes Place, London. In 1787, John Puttick celebrated his nuptial with Charlotte Ashlett at St. James, Westminster, London. These entries illustrate the surname’s continued use and the gradual shift from diverse medieval variants to the modern configuration.
Over successive generations the surname became hereditary, passing from father to son and thereby establishing a family line that retains the historical associations of its early records.
Typical given names associated with the Puttick surname
Male
- Andrew
- Anthony
- Chris
- Dan
- Daniel
- David
- James
- John
- Mark
- Michael
- Philip
- Stephen
- Tony
Female
- Amanda
- Amy
- Elizabeth
- Jennifer
- Julie
- Lorraine
- Mary
- Nicola
- Ruth
- Sarah
- Susan
Similar and related surnames
Related and similar names are generated algorithmically based on the spelling, and may not necessarily share an etymology.
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There are approximately 822 people named Puttick in the UK. That makes it roughly the 8,594th most common surname in Britain. Around 13 in a million people in Britain are named Puttick.
