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| changedTo | Peto Surname |
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| ex:hasHistoricalAnglicisation | true |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Mexico |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Puerto Rico |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Chile |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Mauritius |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Kenya |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Canada |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Benin |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Andorra |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Argentina |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | United States |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Guatemala |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Brazil |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | England |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Australia |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | France |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | United Arab Emirates |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Switzerland |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Thailand |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Portugal |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Dominican Republic |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Hong Kong |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Germany |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Mozambique |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | New Caledonia |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Czechia |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Bulgaria |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Spain |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Belgium |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Netherlands |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| ex:hasIncidenceIn | Singapore |
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| ex:hasMeaning | person from Poitou |
| ex:hasPacificPresence | true |
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| ex:hasThirdHighestIncidenceOutsideFrance | United States |
| ex:hasVariant | Poittevin Surname |
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| exhibitsGeographicContinuity | true |
| exhibitsInternationalMigration | true |
| exhibitsLimitedAfricanMigration | true |
| exhibitsLimitedAsianMigration | true |
| exhibitsMigrationPattern | true |
| exhibitsRuralToUrbanMigration | true |
| exhibitsTransatlanticMigration | true |
| exhibitsUrbanMigrationPattern | true |
| ex:incidence | France |
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| ex:isRareIn | Mauritius |
| ex:isRareIn | Australia |
| ex:isRareIn | Kenya |
| ex:isRelativelyCommonIn | Guatemala |
| ex:isRelativelyCommonIn | France |
| ex:mostCommonIn | Nouvelle Aquitaine |
| ex:notListedIn | Reunion |
| ex:notListedIn | Madagascar |
| ex:percentFound | Europe |
| ex:percentIn | Nouvelle Aquitaine |
| ex:percentIn | Ile De France |
| ex:percentIn | Centre Val De Loire |
| ex:primaryLocation | France |
| ex:quoteText | primarily found in Europe, where 86 percent of Poitevin are found |
| ex:quoteText | Poitevin: changed to Portwine and Peto, from Poitou. |
| ex:rankInArea | France |
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| ex:secondMostCommonIn | Centre Val De Loire |
| ex:similarityTo | Poittevin Surname |
| ex:sourceCited | Family Names and Their Story |
| ex:thirdMostCommonIn | Ile De France |
| ex:totalBearers | 5083 |
| followsFrenchNamingConvention | true |
| foundIn | Ile De France |
| foundIn | Centre Val De Loire |
| hasAfricanDiasporaGenealogicalSignificance | true |
| hasAfricanPresence | true |
| hasAmericasDiaspora | true |
| hasAnglicisedForm | Portwine Surname |
| hasAnglicisedForm | Peto Surname |
| hasBalkanPresence | true |
| hasBeneluxPresence | true |
| hasBritishIslesPresence | true |
| hasCaribbeanPresence | true |
| hasCentralEuropeanPresence | true |
| hasColonialDiasporaPattern | true |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Singapore |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Andorra |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | United Arab Emirates |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Puerto Rico |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Australia |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Benin |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Dominican Republic |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Hong Kong |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Chile |
| hasComparablePresenceIn | Kenya |
| hasConcentrationInFrancophoneWorld | true |
| hasContextId | ctx:genes/val-mauritius/wf2-01-poitevin-surname-origin-meaning-last-name-history-forebear |
| hasCrossReferencedData | true |
| hasCulturalOriginIn | French Culture |
| hasDataCurrencyDate | 2026-05-31 |
| hasDataGapFor | Madagascar |
| hasDataGapFor | Reunion |
| hasDataProvenance | Family Names and Their Story |
| hasDataProvenance | Forebears |
| hasDataProvenance | Wf2 Fetch |
| hasDataQualityLimitation | true |
| hasDataRetrievalDate | 2026-05-31 |
| hasDemonymicFormationPattern | true |
| hasDemonymicOrigin | true |
| hasDiasporaPresence | true |
| hasDocumentedAnglicisation | true |
| hasDocumentedDistribution | true |
| hasDocumentedFrequency | true |
| hasDocumentedIncidence | true |
| hasDocumentedOrigin | true |
| hasDocumentedPhoneticSimilarity | true |
| hasDocumentedRanking | true |
| hasDocumentedRegionalDistribution | true |
| hasDocumentedVariants | true |
| hasDoubleBearerCountries | 3 |
| hasDoubleDigitBearerCountries | 6 |
| hasEnglishLanguageVariant | Portwine Surname |
| hasEnglishLanguageVariant | Peto Surname |
| hasEstimatedBearerCount | true |
| hasEtymologicalMeaning | person from Poitou |
| hasEtymologicalTransparency | true |
| hasEuropeanBearerPercentage | 86 |
| hasEuropeanDominance | true |
| hasFourDigitBearerCountries | 1 |
| hasFrenchBearerCount | 4235 |
| hasFrenchBearerPercentage | 83.32 |
| hasFrenchDominance | true |
| hasFrenchLanguageVariant | Poittevin Surname |
| hasGeographicOriginIn | Western France |
| hasGlobalBearerCount | 5083 |
| hasGlobalRank | 93789 |
| hasGoodDataQuality | true |
| hasHighDataAccuracy | true |
| hasHighDataConfidence | true |
| hasHighestConcentrationInHistoricalOriginRegion | true |
| hasHighestNonEuropeanIncidence | Brazil |
| hasHighestRankInArea | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| hasHighestRelativeFrequencyIn | New Caledonia |
| hasHistoricalDocumentationIn | Family Names and Their Story |
| hasHistoricalQuote | Poitevin: changed to Portwine and Peto, from Poitou. |
| hasIberianPresence | true |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Thailand |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | France |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Brazil |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Guatemala |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | United States |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Bulgaria |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Spain |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | United Arab Emirates |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Benin |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Australia |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Argentina |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Canada |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Dominican Republic |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Portugal |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Belgium |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Netherlands |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Mexico |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Hong Kong |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | England |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Switzerland |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Kenya |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Mauritius |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Chile |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Andorra |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Puerto Rico |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Singapore |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Germany |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Mozambique |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | New Caledonia |
| hasIncidenceInCountry | Czechia |
| hasIndianOceanGenealogicalSignificance | true |
| hasIndianOceanPresence | true |
| hasLatinAmericanPresence | true |
| hasLinguisticOriginIn | French Language |
| hasLowestRankInArea | Thailand |
| hasLowestRelativeFrequencyIn | Kenya |
| hasLowGlobalBearerCount | true |
| hasMaintainedFrenchFormGlobally | true |
| hasMauritiusGenealogicalSignificance | true |
| hasMinimalAsianPresence | true |
| hasMinimalMiddleEastPresence | true |
| hasMinimalOceaniaPresence | true |
| hasModerateDataCompleteness | true |
| hasMultipleOrthographicVariants | true |
| hasMultipleVariantSpellings | true |
| hasMultiSourceProvenance | true |
| hasNoListedAfricanBearersOutside | Mozambique Kenya Benin |
| hasNoListedPresenceInAlgeria | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInCambodia | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInChina | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInFrenchGuiana | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInFrenchPolynesia | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInGuadeloupe | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInHaiti | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInIndia | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInIreland | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInItaly | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInJapan | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInLaos | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInLebanon | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInLouisiana | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInMartinique | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInMayotte | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInMorocco | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInNewZealand | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInPoland | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInQuebec | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInRussia | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInSaintPierreAndMiquelon | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInScotland | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInSouthAfrica | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInSyria | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInTunisia | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInVietnam | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInWales | true |
| hasNoListedPresenceInWallisAndFutuna | true |
| hasPacificPresence | true |
| hasPhoneticallyAdaptedVariant | Peto Surname |
| hasPhonologicallySimilarVariant | Poittevin Surname |
| hasPresenceInFormerFrenchColonies | true |
| hasPreservedFrenchIdentity | true |
| hasPrimaryCountry | France |
| hasPrimaryGeographicConcentration | Europe |
| hasPrimaryLocation | France |
| hasPrimarySource | Forebears |
| hasQuadrupleBearerCountries | 2 |
| hasQuantifiedBearerPopulation | true |
| hasQuantifiedDistribution | true |
| hasQuantifiedGeographicSpread | true |
| hasQuantifiedGlobalStanding | true |
| hasQuantifiedRegionalDistribution | true |
| hasQuantifiedSimilarity | true |
| hasRareGlobalStatus | true |
| hasSecondarySource | Family Names and Their Story |
| hasSecondHighestNonEuropeanIncidence | Guatemala |
| hasSecondHighestRankInArea | Andorra |
| hasSecondHighestRelativeFrequencyIn | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| hasSemanticallyAdaptedVariant | Portwine Surname |
| hasSemanticallyEquivalentVariant | Poittevin Surname |
| hasSingleBearerCountries | 14 |
| hasSourceUrl | https://forebears.io/surnames/poitevin |
| hasTertiarySource | Wf2 Fetch |
| hasThirdHighestNonEuropeanIncidence | United States |
| hasThirdHighestRankInArea | Mozambique |
| hasThirdHighestRelativeFrequencyIn | Andorra |
| hasTotalListedCountries | 30 |
| hasTransatlanticDiaspora | true |
| hasTripleBearerCountries | 0 |
| hasTripleDigitBearerCountries | 4 |
| hasUndergoneAnglicisationInEnglishContext | true |
| hasUnexpectedAbsenceIn | Reunion |
| hasUnexpectedAbsenceIn | Madagascar |
| hasVariantWithDifferentSemantic | Portwine Surname |
| hasVerifiedDataSource | true |
| hasVerifiedHistoricalSource | true |
| isClassifiedAs | Habitational Surname |
| isMoreCommonInGuatemala | true |
| isMoreCommonInMozambique | true |
| isMoreCommonInNewCaledonia | true |
| isMostCommonIn | Nouvelle Aquitaine |
| isRelativelyUncommonInMauritius | true |
| isRelevantToMauritiusGenealogy | true |
| isResearchTargetFor | Val Mauritius Project |
| isSubjectOfComparativeAnalysis | true |
| isSubjectOfGenealogicalResearch | true |
| isSubjectOfGeographicAnalysis | true |
| isSubjectOfHistoricalAnalysis | true |
| isSubjectOfPhoneticAnalysis | true |
| isSubjectOfQuantitativeAnalysis | true |
| lacksMadagascarPresence | true |
| lacksReunionPresence | true |
| originatesFrom | Poitou Region France |
| originatesFrom | Poitou Region |
| primarilyFoundIn | Europe |
| requiresAdditionalResearchFor | Reunion |
| requiresAdditionalResearchFor | Madagascar |
| underwentAnglicisation | true |
| wasFetchedOn | 2026-05-31 |