Footitt Family History
Footitt Name Meaning
from Middle English fot-hot recorded as a vocabulary item only in an adverbial sense ‘in great haste’ but as a nickname it may alternatively have been adjectival ‘foot-hot hot or eager (in the) foot’ for someone quick on his feet or in a hurry. For the formation compare Middle English fot lame ‘lame in the foot’ (
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016