Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Köth) : from Middle High German, Middle Low German kote ‘cottage’, ‘hovel’, a status name for a day laborer who lived in a cottage and owned no farmland. Compare Kotz.
- German : from a short form of any of various personal names formed with Old High German got ‘god’, for example Gottfried.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kot.