Cottrels Surname

14,316,765th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Cottrels Surname Definition:

Cottars: The cottar could hold nothing of his own, nor acquire anything without the consent of his lord. The Cottrel was in no better position. Shakespeare employs the word coystril, a corruption of cottrel, as descriptive of a very poor peasant.

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Cottrels Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England31:8,125,123158,686

Cottrels Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Cottars: The cottar could hold nothing of his own, nor acquire anything without the consent of his lord. The Cottrel was in no better position. Shakespeare employs the word coystril, a corruption of cottrel, as descriptive of a very poor peasant. Hence our Cotterels, Cottrels, Cotmans, Cottars, Coatmans, Coates. The coscet was a cottar paying a small rent for a very small piece of land. Guscot is the coscet’s cottage.

Family Names And Their Story (1913) by Sabine Baring-Gould

Cottrels Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cottrels Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cottrels is found most frequently in The United States. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Cottrels.

How Common Is The Last Name Cottrels? popularity and diffusion

The last name Cottrels is the 14,316,765th most prevalent last name globally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,147,483,647 people. Cottrels occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Cottrels reside; 100 percent reside in North America and 100 percent reside in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 1 people, or 1 in 362,458,933. In The United States Cottrels is mostly concentrated in: Missouri, where 100 percent are found.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Corels861/
Correls8013/
Catrels805/
Corelse801/
Corelles751/
Corrells751/
Carels711,853/
Corles71120/
Cautreels7185/
Correlles711/
Carelse679,020/
Corless674,130/
Carrels67113/
Caarels67112/
Carelsz6742/
Corrles6710/
Corelje671/
Korrels671/
Careels671/
Courles670/

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