Pettifer or Pettyfer is an English surname. The name Pettifer comes from the Old French nickname "pied de fer", meaning "Iron Foot".[1][2][3]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Pettyfer (born 1990), English actor
- Arran Pettifer (born 2003), English footballer
- Brian Pettifer (born 1949), British actor
- James Pettifer, British academic, writer and journalist
- Julian Pettifer (born 1935), English television journalist
- Joel Pettyfer (born 1987), English wrestler, known as Joel Redman
- Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 1968), known as Julian Barratt, English comedian
- Kayne Pettifer (born 1982), Australian rules footballer
- Steve Pettifer (born 1965), English computer scientist
- Tiggy Legge-Bourke (born 1965), English nanny, now Tiggy Pettifer
References
edit- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure (Historian), Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 2095. ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ Harrison, Henry; Harrison, Gyda Pulling (1 January 1912). Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary. 73: Dalcassian Publishing Company. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Whitney, William Dwight (1890). The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language. Century Company. p. 4355.
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