About the Côté surname
The surname Côté has a primarily toponymic formation. Côté is generally linked to someone living by a slope, hillside, or similar landform. The surname may therefore originally have identified a person by place of origin, residence, or a feature of the landscape. Côté contains one or more diacritics in its canonical spelling. Historical or normalized indexes may omit them, which is useful to keep in mind during genealogical research. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “cote”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Ko-té/kote/