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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CHILCOTT

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1. habitational name from a place in Somerset named Childcott, from the Old English personal name Ceola (a short form of various compound names beginning with ceol ‘ship’) + Old English cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’.
2. variant of Chilcote.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)