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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : status name for a cottager (see Cotter 2), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling, from Middle English cote, cott + man (see Coates).
  • Respelling of German Kothmann, Kottmann (see Kottman), or Kathmann (see Kathman).

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