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There may not be many other common given names that end in -otte in modern French, but there are quite a few French or Norman French surnames derived from given names that end in -ot or -otte. This shows that -ot was a productive suffix in French in medieval times. Some examples of such names from Dauzat's Dictionnaire etymologique des noms de famille et prenoms de France include Jacot, Jacotte, Louisot, Michelot, Mathiot, Pierrot, Mariot, Mariotte, Denisot, and Gerardot.