English: nickname from Middle English chitte ‘pup’,
‘cub’, ‘young (of an animal)’ (apparently related to Old English
ci{dh} ‘shoot’, ‘sprout’).English: habitational
name from a place named Chitty in the parish of Chislet, Kent, named
from an Old English personal name Citta + eg
‘island’, ‘dry ground in marsh’. Possibly an Americanized
form of German Schütte (see Schutte).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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