When Carl Hermann Bott was born on 9 July 1893, in Calmbach, Neuenbürg, Württemberg, Germany, his father, Philipp Gottfried Bott, was 31 and his mother, Luise Friederike Straehler, was 32. He died on 6 February 1963, in Neuenbürg, Neuenbürg, Württemberg, Germany, at the age of 69.
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English: nickname from Old French bot ‘toad’ (compare Bottrell ). Alternatively, from the Middle English personal name Botte (a survival of Old English Botta). Compare Botting .
South German: occupational name for a messenger, from Middle High German bote ‘messenger, emissary’.
Danish: presumably from Dutch bot, both ‘flounder’ (the fish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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