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How Popular Is The Name Couture
Family name origins & meanings
- French : metonymic occupational name for a tailor, from Old French cousture ‘seam’ (Latin consutura, from (con)suere ‘to sew (together)’).
- French : metonymic occupational name for a holder of a smallholding, Old French couture ‘small plot’, ‘kitchen garden’ (Late Latin cultura, in classical Latin used in the abstract sense ‘cultivation’, ‘agriculture’, from colere ‘to till or tend’).