Proudfoot Family History
Proudfoot Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname for someone with a strutting or swaggering gait from Older Scots and Middle English proud prood ‘proud haughty’ + fote ‘foot’. Alternatively it may be an alteration by folk etymology of the Older Scots adjective proudfull ‘excessively full bloated’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022