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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a short form of the personal name Bonanotte, from buona ‘good’ + notte ‘night’, given with reference to the time of birth.
  • French : occupational name for a choral singer, from not(t)er ‘to sing’.
  • Dutch : from a reduced form of a personal name ending in -n (for example, Johann, Jan) with the diminutive suffix -otte.
  • Dutch and Belgian (van der Notte) : habitational name from any of various places called Ter Noot, for example in Borre, French Flanders.
  • German (also Nötte) : variant of Nott.

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