as a Last Name
- 18,028
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cottrell
Meaning & Origins
French and English: status name for a cottager, from Old French coterel, a diminutive of cotier ‘cottager’ (see Cotter 2).
| 2,041st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,028
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Cottrell per capita
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