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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

'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.

Meaning of COTTER in historical publications

COTTER. COTTAR. Scotch. A cottager. See Cotman.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for COTTER

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