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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : derivative of Kot ‘cat’.
  • Czech : from a pet form of the personal name Chotěbor, meaning ‘warlike’.
  • Greek : with the stress on the first syllable, this is from a pet form of the personal name Konstantinos (see Constantine, and compare Kostas).
  • Greek : with the stress on the second syllable, it is an occupational name for a poulterer, from kota ‘hen’ + the occupational suffix -as.

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