Names That Mean Cottage
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- Beckett
Origin:
English and IrishMeaning:
"bee hive, little brook or bee cottage"Description:
Beckett is one of the big baby name hits of the decade.
- Prescott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"priest's cottage"Description:
Prescott is one of several distinguished, upper-crusty surnames beginning with P.
- Alcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"dweller at the old cottage"Description:
Alcott evokes shades of nineteenth-century New England, and memories of the author of the books Little Women and Little Men. Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, noted educator, writer and philosopher, and colleague of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- Haines
Origin:
GermanMeaning:
"the vined cottage"Description:
A preppy surname of hidden German origin that would fit right in with currently trendy s-ending boy names like Brooks.
- Endicott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"beyond the cottage"Description:
Upstanding New England patrician name.
- Talcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"cottage near the lake"Description:
A bit formal for our time, Alcott would be a bit less forbidding.
- Prescott
Origin:
English surnameMeaning:
"priest's cottage"Description:
Preppy P surname, and a potential way to honor a Scott.
- Alcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"dweller at the old cottage"Description:
Intriguing alternative that goes beyond Louisa and May, for Little Women fans.
- Wolcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"cottage near a stream"Description:
One of many stuffy British W surnames that would subject an American boy to years of teasing before growing into it at age fifty.
- Westcott
Origin:
EnglishMeaning:
"from the western cottage"Description:
If you find West not substantial enough, this would make a more solid path to it.