Cottrell
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cottrell has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Cottrell, 2014
1 in 618,000
Cottrell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cottrell?
Cottrell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 618,000
- 6 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 320,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 428,229 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cottrell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cottrell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cottrells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cottrell was born before 1951 — so the typical Cottrell is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (30).
Is Cottrell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1922 (8)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Spellings of Cottrell
Cottrell is not the most common spelling — Montrell is, with 57.3% against Cottrell's 2.0%.
Cottrell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cottrell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cottrell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.