Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a peddler or a nickname for someone who always had something to sell, from Middle High German schotte ‘peddler’.
- German (Schött) : metonymic occupational name for a tax collector, from Middle Low German schot ‘tax’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from either German Schotte ‘Scotsman’ or German Schote ‘pod’.