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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kötter) : status name for a farm laborer who lived in a cottage or hovel with no land, from an agent derivative of Middle High German and Middle Low German kote ‘cottage’, ‘hovel’ (see Koth).

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