Cotton
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning from the cottage settlement.
Babies a year
17
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Cotton by the numbers
Cotton was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 31 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cotton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Coltondark settlement; coal town5,261 in the US (2017)
- Coltendark settlement or coal town; a respelling of Colton358 in the US (2017)
- Colsoncoal-black; son of Cole321 in the US (2017)
- Coltyna form of Colton; colt settlement64 in the US (2017)
- Colstoncole's settlement; a place name used as a given name50 in the US (2017)
- Coltincoal town; a variant of Colton39 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cotton
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