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Origin Of The Surname Cotton
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Meaning Of The Surname Cotton
From the Cottages
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Interesting
Facts About
Cotton
Cotton is surprisingly a locational surname, originating from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain such as Coatham in Nottinghamshire. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. All these town names originate from the Old English ‘cotum’ which meant cottages. The towns with this name would have originally been only a small group of cottages. Fearne Cotton the English television presenter is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Cotton Statistics
Cotton is the number 978 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,959 share the surname Cotton in the UK.
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