Cotta Family History
Cotta Name Meaning
Portuguese and Spanish: possibly a nickname from cota ‘breast armor’. Italian: from a short form of a personal name formed with the suffix -cotta as for example Ciccotta or a nickname from cotta ‘(ecclesiastical) habit’. German: habitational name from either of two places called Cotta near Pirna and near Dresden in Saxony. French: regional variant of Cotte .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022