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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant spelling of Kattes, patronymic from the personal name Kat(t)e (see Katt 1).
  • Dutch : from the possessive case of kat ‘cat’ as a nickname (see Katt 2).

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