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Flett Family History

This interesting Scottish surname has two possible origins. The first being a locational name from a place thus called in the parish of Detting, Shetland, so named from the Old Norse "flotr" meaning "a piece of arable land". The second distinct possibility (and that favoured by J.S. Clouston in his work, "the Peoples and Surnames of Orkney"), is that the name derives from the Old Norse byname Fljotr meaning "Speedy" and originally given as a nickname to one subject of foot. The surname is first recorded in Scotland in the early 15th Century (see below).