Släkthistoria för Cosse
Cosse Vad efternamn betyder
Probably an altered form of Breton Le Cossec: metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of spools derived from kos coss ‘reel spool’; or alternatively a nickname from a homonymous word meaning ‘weevil’. This predominantly LA surname (in this sense or perhaps in the sense 2 below) is also found among African Americans. French (Cossé): habitational name from Cossé-d'Anjou in Maine-et-Loire Cossé-en-Champagne or Cossé-le-Vivien in Mayenne all of which are named with the Gallo-Roman personal name Cocceius + the locative suffix -acum. French: from cosse ‘pod’ probably a nickname or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of peas and similar vegetables. Compare Lacosse Dutch and German: variant of Kosse. American (shortened and) altered form of an unidentified Greek surname most likely Costas or some other surname beginning with Cost-.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
