Couture Family History
Couture Name Meaning
French:: metonymic occupational name for a holder of a smallholding from Old French couture ‘small plot kitchen garden’ from Late Latin cultura in classical Latin used in the abstract sense ‘cultivation agriculture’ (from colere ‘to till or tend’). habitational name from (La) Couture the name of several places in various parts of France corresponding to Late Latin cultura (see 1 above). metonymic occupational name for a tailor from Old French cousture ‘seam’ from Latin consutura from (con)suere ‘to sew (together)’. Compare Cutcher .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022