Cottingham Family History
Cottingham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places named
Cottingham (‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of
(Old English -inga-) of a man named Cott or
Cotta’), one in East Yorkshire and one in Northamptonshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cottingham Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cottingham families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cottingham families
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87 - 172 30 - 86 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cottingham families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cottingham Family Origin
Cottingham Immigration Information
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Cottingham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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