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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : God's oath; dedicated

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree or in a birch wood, from Late Latin bettia ‘birch wood’, a word of Gaulish origin.

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