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The cotten Surname

cotten Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Cotton.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of German Kotten, a habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland, Westphalia, Silesia, etc., or an Americanized shortened form of composite German surnames such as Kottenhagen, Kottenhoff, Kottenkamp (see Koth).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The cotten name in History

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Distribution of cotten Families in the US in 1920
Number of cotten families
 25-47
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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