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.