Cottee

English

Etymology

From Old French cotte (“coat of mail”), a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of chainmail.

Proper noun

Cottee (plural Cottees)

1. A surname from Old French.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cottee is the 8292^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 768 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cottee”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 374.