How common is the last name Cotton?

31,686 people in the United States have the last name Cotton, about 1 in 9,433. It ranks #1,085 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

COTTON

#1,085

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,686
About
1 in 9,433
This common or more
40.7%
Who bears it

Of the 31,686 people with the last name Cotton, 49.9% reported their origin as White, 40.1% as Black and 5.1% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Cotton

#1,083 Key · 31,773#1,084 Chaney · 31,687#1,086 Ritter · 31,649#1,087 Becerra · 31,625

Spelled almost the same

4 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cotton, most common first.

#6,087 Cotten · 5,415#16,310 Cottone · 1,713#23,522 Cottom · 1,114#90,848 Coton · 218

Also a first name

As a first name, Cotton ranks #21,237 of 53,615, with 480 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2015, with 31 births. See Cotton as a first name

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