The walcott Surname
walcott Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Walcott, Walcot, or Walcote, for example in Lincolnshire,
Leicestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all named in Old
English with w(e)alh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’, ‘Welsh’, genitive
plural wala (see Wallace) + cot ‘cottage’,
‘shelter’, i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons
lived’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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