The COTTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,977	2764	0.004	44
United States (1880 census)	3,600	1702	0.007	72
Change since 1880	+8377	-1062	-0.003	-28
Other Countries
Australia	1,401	1166	0.009	86
United Kingdom	2,331	2591	0.005	51

Top States for COTTER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,231	676	0.019	194
California	1,093	2862	0.003	32
New York	993	1842	0.005	52
Michigan	710	1557	0.007	71
Florida	630	3253	0.004	39
Top States for COTTER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,231	676	0.019	194
New Hampshire	177	1088	0.014	143
Rhode Island	117	1327	0.011	112
Wisconsin	436	1478	0.008	81
Connecticut	267	1627	0.008	78

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COTTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COTTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the COTTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COTTER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	149	1.24
Mixed Race	129	1.08
Black/African American	126	1.05
Native American/Alaskan	69	0.58
Asian/Pacific	57	0.48
White (Caucasian)	11,448	95.58

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

Similar names to COTTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COTTER.

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.