Släkthistoria för Pottow
Pottow Vad efternamn betyder
from Potto (NR Yorks) which is recorded as Pothow in 1202 and Pottowe in 1285. The place is named with Old English pott ‘pot’ (perhaps in a topographical sense ‘hollow small valley’) + Old Scandinavian haugr ‘mound’.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
