Last name origins & meanings:
- Polish and Jewish (from Poland): from Polish kaczor
‘drake’, applied either as a nickname or (especially among Jews) as an
ornamental name.
- Hungarian: nickname from Slovak kocúr
‘tom cat’; alternatively it may be from Hungarian kacor ‘curved
knife’ (from Southern Slav koser, kosir, kosor),
perhaps as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of such
knives.
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