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bott Name Meaning and History

  1. English: probably from an Old English personal name of uncertain origin; perhaps a cognate of Bothe or akin to Butt. However, forms such as Walter le Botte (Oxfordshire 1279) seem to point to a nickname or occupational name, perhaps from Old French bot ‘butt’, ‘cask’, or bot ‘toad’. Compare Bottrell.
  2. South German: occupational name for a messenger, from Middle High German bote ‘messenger’, ‘emissary’.
  3. Danish: according to Søndergaard, from Dutch bot, both ‘flounder’ (the fish).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bott Families in the US in 1920
Number of bott families
 59-116
 20-58		 1-19
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