Cottney Surname
Approximately 21 people bear this surname
Cottney Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | 18 | 1:102,502 | 6,334 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 13 | 1:340,759 | 12,983 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1:16,739,561 | 595,711 |
Cottney Demographics
Cottney Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Cottney Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cottney Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cottney is most common in Northern Ireland. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cottney? popularity and diffusion
The surname Cottney is the 4,307,654th most common last name on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 347,025,996 people. The surname Cottney occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Cottney live; 100 percent live in Northern Europe and 100 percent live in British Isles.
This last name is most frequently used in Northern Ireland, where it is borne by 18 people, or 1 in 102,502. In Northern Ireland Cottney is most frequent in: Ulster, where 100 percent live. Outside of Northern Ireland Cottney is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in Scotland, where 10 percent live and England, where 5 percent live.
Cottney Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Anglican (62%) in Ireland.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cottney
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