Family name origins & meanings
- English : a topographic name for someone who lived in a cottage at the lower end of a settlement, from Middle English nether(e) ‘lower’ (Old English neoðera) + cot ‘cottage’, or a habitational name from any of various places named with these elements, as for example Nethercote or Nethercott in Oxfordshire, Nethercote in Warwickshire, or Nethercott in Devon.