# Pettifer

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**Pettifer** is an English surname. Variants include Pettipher, Pettyfer, Pettefer, Petifer, [Pettifor](/source/Pettifor), Pettifar, Pettafor, Pettyfor, [Pettiford](/source/Pettiford), Petford, Pettefar, Pettiver, Puddifer, Puddepha, and [Pot(t)iphar](/source/Potiphar) (altered by folk etymology to conform to the name of Pharaoh's captain of the guard in *[Genesis](/source/Book_of_Genesis)* chapter 39).[1] The name Pettifer comes from the Old French nickname "pied de fer", meaning "Iron Foot".[2][3][4]

Notable people with the surname include:

- [Alex Pettyfer](/source/Alex_Pettyfer) (born 1990), English actor
- [Arran Pettifer](/source/Arran_Pettifer) (born 2003), English footballer
- [Brian Pettifer](/source/Brian_Pettifer) (born 1949), British actor
- [Carl Pettefer](/source/Carl_Pettefer) (born 1981), English footballer
- [James Pettifer](/source/James_Pettifer), British academic, writer and journalist
- [Julian Pettifer](/source/Julian_Pettifer) (born 1935), English television journalist
- [Joel Pettyfer](/source/Joel_Redman) (born 1987), English wrestler, known as Joel Redman
- [Julian Barratt Pettifer](/source/Julian_Barratt) (born 1968), known as Julian Barratt, English comedian
- [Kayne Pettifer](/source/Kayne_Pettifer) (born 1982), Australian rules footballer
- [Steve Pettifer](/source/Steve_Pettifer) (born 1965), English computer scientist
- [Tiggy Legge-Bourke](/source/Tiggy_Legge-Bourke) (born 1965), English nanny, now Tiggy Pettifer

## See also

- [Petford](/source/Petford)
- [Pettifor](/source/Pettifor)
- [Pettiford](/source/Pettiford)

## References

1. Hanks, Patrick (2002). [*The Oxford names companion*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Oxford_Names_Companion/nKdrQgAACAAJ?hl=en). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198605614. Retrieved 30 December 2025.

1. Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure (Historian), Peter (2016). [*The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dkcGkAEACAAJ). Oxford University Press. p. 2095. ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4. Retrieved 9 December 2022.

1. Harrison, Henry & Harrison, Gyda Pulling (1 January 1912). [*Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary*](https://books.google.com/books?id=nuXFDwAAQBAJ). 73: Dalcassian Publishing Company. Retrieved 9 December 2022.

1. Whitney, William Dwight (1890). [*The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HW6gHMs_pxsC). Century Company. p. 4355.

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