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The COTMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 734 30120 0 3
United States (1880 census) 243 16738 0 5
Change since 1880 +491 -13382 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 12 77689 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COTMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 363 2745 0.005 51
Florida 74 24277 0.000 5
Ohio 52 25827 0.000 5
New York 39 49223 0.000 2
Michigan 25 50439 0.000 3
Top States for COTMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 363 2745 0.005 51
Delaware 5 24025 0.001 6
Washington DC 3 21729 0.001 5
Florida 74 24277 0.000 5
Ohio 52 25827 0.000 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COTMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COTMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COTMAN in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COTMAN by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COTMAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COTMAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of COTMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 565 76.98
White (Caucasian) 132 17.98
Mixed Race 17 2.32
White (Hispanic) 11 1.5
Native American/Alaskan 9 1.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COTMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

COTMAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of COTMAN in historical publications

COTMAN. The cotmannus, i.e., the cottarius, cotter, or cottager, of Domesd. was one who held by free socage tenure, and paid rent in provisions or money. Ellis, Introd. Domesd. In H.R. Cotman is used as a baptismal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to COTMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COTMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COTMAN

The following words are slight variants of COTMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.