The COTTINGHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,063	7548	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,156	4830	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+2907	-2718	0	-8
Other Countries
Australia	103	13889	0.001	6
United Kingdom	1,160	4664	0.003	25

Top States for COTTINGHAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	426	1637	0.010	96
Texas	255	7310	0.001	12
South Carolina	248	2414	0.006	62
California	246	10397	0.001	7
Illinois	239	5402	0.002	19
Top States for COTTINGHAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	426	1637	0.010	96
South Carolina	248	2414	0.006	62
Delaware	39	3449	0.005	50
Indiana	230	3329	0.004	38
Arkansas	98	3347	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of COTTINGHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COTTINGHAM 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 COTTINGHAM 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 COTTINGHAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	773	19.03
White (Hispanic)	61	1.5
Mixed Race	56	1.38
Native American/Alaskan	27	0.66
Asian/Pacific	19	0.47
White (Caucasian)	3,127	76.96

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

Similar names to COTTINGHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COTTINGHAM.

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.