Last Name COTMAN

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Meaning	The cotter, one who held in absolute villenage; several tenants, who were mere chattels of their lord, being alike in person and goods at the disposal of their superior. They are Latinized as Cotmanni and Cottarii. Beatrix Cotewife may have been a widow, holding as tenant after the husband's decease.

Origin	English, Irish, Romanian, Belgian

Rank	30,120 (2000 US census)	41,056 (1990 US census)

Count	734 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

17.98%, or 132 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
76.98%, or 565 total occurrences, as black,
0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.23%, or 9 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.32%, or 17 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.5%, or 11 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
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