Family name origins & meanings
- Italian : from a short form of the personal name Bonanotte, from buona ‘good’ + notte ‘night’, given with reference to the time of birth.
- French : occupational name for a choral singer, from not(t)er ‘to sing’.
- Dutch : from a reduced form of a personal name ending in -n (for example, Johann, Jan) with the diminutive suffix -otte.
- Dutch and Belgian (van der Notte) : habitational name from any of various places called Ter Noot, for example in Borre, French Flanders.
- German (also Nötte) : variant of Nott.