Last Name COTTER

Summary/Contribute


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, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 2,764 (2000 US census) 3,199 (1990 US census)
Count 11,977 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.58%, or 11448 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.05%, or 126 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.48%, or 57 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.58%, or 69 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.08%, or 129 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.24%, or 149 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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Ukrainian middle names

 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.

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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