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coates Name Meaning and History

  1. English: status name for a cottager (see Cotter 2), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.
  2. Scottish: variant of Coutts.
  3. Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Kotz or German Koths, from a variant of the medieval personal name Godo (see Gottfried).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of coates Families in the US in 1920
Number of coates families
 130-257
 44-129		 1-43
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