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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Dutch Cossaert, probably a nickname for a confidante, sweetheart, or flatterer, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch cosen ‘to whisper’.
  • perhaps also a variant of the French nickname Cossard ‘lazybones’, ‘idle fellow’.

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