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Habitational surname from a lost place in Kent, from the Old English personal name *Peatta + dene (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from a lost place in Kent, from the Old English personal name *Peatta + dene (“valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.