as a Last Name
- 28,756
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cotton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of numerous places named from Old English cotum (dative plural of cot) ‘at the cottages or huts’ (or sometimes possibly from a Middle English plural, coten). Examples include Coton (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire), Cottam (East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire), and Cotham (Nottinghamshire).
| 1,052nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,756
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Cotton per capita
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