Family name origins & meanings
- Polish, Slovak, Czech, Belorussian, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), and German (of Slavic origin) : from a personal name or nickname based on Slavic kot ‘tom cat’. As a Jewish name it is generally an ornamental name.
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