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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Cotton.
  • 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).

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