English: from Middle English pytte, pitte ‘pit’,
‘hollow’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or
hollow, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as
for example Pitt in Hampshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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