About the Turcotte surname
The surname Turcotte is associated with an older descriptive nickname. Turcotte is an old diminutive form that may be connected with a nickname based on the word “Turk.”. Names of this type generally began as nicknames used to distinguish a person by a physical, personal, or social characteristic. The same nickname could be given independently to different people, producing unrelated family lines.
Pronunciation:
Tur-kot/tyʁkɔt/