indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Surname (from location)
Usage French
Meaning & History
A variant of the french word for potter, potier.Also thought to have come from settlers from Poitiers, which is a city on the Clain river in west central France. These immigrants settled in the Acadian regions of Eastern Canada and North-East United States.Can be spelled Pottier, Pothier, or Potier