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The surname Cottman

A surname, carried by 1,383 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C355

Cottman: #19,527 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cottman #19,527, 1,383 people Cottman: #19,527 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cottman #19,527, 1,383 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cottman is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,383 people named Cottman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,243 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,294.

#19,527
rank among US surnames
1,383
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+6.9%
change since 2000 (was #19,366)

Who is named Cottman

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

73% of people named Cottman identified as Black (not Hispanic), 20% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 73%
  • White (not Hispanic) 20%
  • Two or more races 3.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cottman

Cottman has the Soundex code C355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C355.

Questions

How common is the surname Cottman?
1,383 people in the United States had the surname Cottman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,243 Americans. It ranked 19,527th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cottman?
In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Cottman identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 20% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Cottman getting more or less common?
More common. 1,294 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,383 in 2010, up 6.9%.