Feces
The last name Kött can be found about 150 times in the German telephone directory.
origin
The family name is by the word Kotte ; Feces ; Kate ; originated. A Kotte or Kate was in 17./18. Century a building in which preferably day laborers , the so-called "Kötter" (in Silesian and in Prussia cottagers ) lived, who did not own land. This means that the people who then bore one of these forms of name were day laborers. With the development of family names, a large number of similar names emerged.
Additional characteristics
Also as compound words like Siepenkötter; Schliepköter; Strotköter.
Well-known namesake
- Christoph Florentius Kött (1801–1873), Bishop of Fulda (1848–1873)
- Luise Kött-Gärtner (* 1953), German plastic artist
- Mimi Kött (actually: Margit Weiß; 1890–1931), Hungarian singer and actress