[Surname] surname COULTER
Could anyone explain me the origin of thissurname.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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One of my namebooks has it as English, meaning a herd of colts ...it's also in my Irish namebook as deriving from Ó Coltaráin which is basically a farming instrument, a plowshare ...I think that is probably more accurate than the "colt" explanation ...even in English.