How common is the surname Cottam?

1,124 people in the United States had the surname Cottam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. It ranked 22,791st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cottam?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Cottam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Cottam getting more or less common?

More common. 1,033 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,124 in 2010, up 8.8%.

The surname Cottam

A surname, carried by 1,124 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cottam is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,124 people named Cottam in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,033.

#22,791

rank among US surnames

1,124

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.8%

change since 2000 (was #23,087)

Who is named Cottam

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Cottam identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cottam

Cottam has the Soundex code C350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C350.

Questions

How common is the surname Cottam?: 1,124 people in the United States had the surname Cottam in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. It ranked 22,791st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cottam?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Cottam identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Cottam getting more or less common?: More common. 1,033 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,124 in 2010, up 8.8%.