Given name & surname
Cottrell
“cottager”
Cottrell is a surname from Old French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cottrell goes back to Old French coterel, meaning “cottager.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cottrell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 141
- 141 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 160 as a first name in 2020; 16,222 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cottrell’s family of names
In English usage, Cottrell as a surname has a related form in COTTERELL. In English usage, Cottrell as a surname has a related form in CUTRELL.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Cottrell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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