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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from the Old Norse byname Káti (from káti ‘boy’). (Kate was not in use as a pet form of Catherine during the Middle Ages.)
  • Probably in some instances an Americanized spelling of German Goetz.

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