The cottage Surname

cottage Name Meaning and History

English (Cambridgeshire): unexplained; apparently from Norman French cotage, perhaps denoting the status of a cotter (see Cotter 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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cottage Family Facts

Distribution of cottage Families in the US in 1920

Number of cottage families

4-5

2-3

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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