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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Köth) : from Middle High German, Middle Low German kote ‘cottage’, ‘hovel’, a status name for a day laborer who lived in a cottage and owned no farmland. Compare Kotz.
  • German : from a short form of any of various personal names formed with Old High German got ‘god’, for example Gottfried.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kot.

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