The Surname, 'chote'...

[sandyRoe]

Not one you see very often. Is it English?

[AlwaysConfused]

Quickly Googled Chote, only saw one Englishman with the surname Chote. Wiki doesn't give the background to the name, but it doesn't sound English to me

[boxtops]

I wonder if it's a corruption of Choate http://www.houseofnames.com/choate-family-crest

[boxtops]

There are quite a few here! http://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=chote

[sandyRoe]

Robert Choat, the economist, was on television this morning and it struck me that his name was an unusual one. But not as rare as I'd thought, apparently.

[Zacs-Master]

They would seem to like coastal areas with major ports accirding to the map in the link kindly supplied by boxy, so could well be a corruption of a foreign surname. Sounds slightly Indian to me.

[Answerprancer]

Maybe I imagined it, but I think I saw that name come up in Brasseye.