Cottle Family History
Cottle Name Meaning
English (South western England):: metonymic occupational name for an armorer probably first derived from Old French cotel ‘coat of mail’; later examples may also derive from Old French cotel coutel ‘short knife or dagger’ (from Late Latin cultellus) used to denote a cutler. perhaps also a habitational name from written forms of any of the three places in Devon named Cotleigh or Cotley.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022