Cottrell

16,222 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cottrell in the 2020 census, making it the 2,187th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,222
Rank: 2,187th
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From Old French coterel, a diminutive of cotier (“cottager”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cottrell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.3%
Black, not Hispanic 11.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cottrell

Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948)American chemist
Alan Cottrell (1919–2012)British metallurgist and physicist

People named Cottrell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cottrell

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.