Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : nickname from kotara ‘curtain’.
- Czech (Kot’ara) : nickname for a lame person, from the Czech dialect word kot’ara ‘leg’.
- Czech : from the personal name Chtěbor.
- Possibly also a reduced form of Greek Kotaras or Kotaridis, derivatives of the personal name Kotas, a pet form of Konstantinos (see Constantine), + the augmentative suffix -aras.