Potts (surname)

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Potts (and Pott) is a surname of English origin. The word potts refers to circular hollows in the ground. [1]

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  1. Lower, Mark Antony (1860). Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom. J.R. Smith. p.  274.