Galician: habitational name from any of several places in
Galicia named Cota, for example in Lugo province. The place name may
be from cota ‘animal den’.Variant spelling of German
Cotta.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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