Family name origins & meanings
- English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a keeper of oxen, from an agent derivative of Middle English nowt ‘beast’, ‘ox’ (from Old Norse naut, a cognate of Old English nēat; compare Neat).
- English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : occupational name for a scribe or clerk, from Middle English notere (Old English nōtere, from Latin notarius, an agent derivative of nota ‘mark’, ‘sign’).