Släkthistoria för Cotte
Cotte Vad efternamn betyder
French: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of a kind of long-sleeved tunic worn in the Middle Ages by farmers of both sexes or of a chain mail from Old French cot(t)e ‘long-sleeved tunic coat of mail surcoat’. See also 2 below. French (Cotté): nickname for a wearer of a kind of long-sleeved tunic (see 1 above) or less likely of a chain mail a protection which only the richest classes who already had distinguished surnames of their own could afford. French: habitational name from (La) Cotte the name of several places in various parts of France. German: variant of Kotte a surname which is in part of Sorbian origin.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
