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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a flax grower or dealer, from Middle High German kūte.
  • German : from Kaut(e) ‘male dove’, hence a metonymic occupational name for the owner or keeper of a dovecote.
  • German : topographic name from the Franconian dialect word Kaut(e) ‘hollow’, ‘pit’, ‘den’.

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