Cotton

Word name

Cotton Origin and Meaning

The name Cotton is a boy's name.

A name heard in Puritan times -- Cotton Mather was a minister involved in the Salem witchcraft trials -- which really deserves modern consideration as it blends nature and softness into a really trendy and wearable masculine name.

Cotton Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 2734 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Cotton

• 1965 Nameberry 2023

20 Names Similar to Cotton

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• Day
• Almond
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• Wisdom
• Green
• Quarry
• Prairie
• Swift
• Beach
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• Burgundy
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Famous People Named Cotton

• Cotton Mather American Puritan minister
• Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons American basketball coach
• Cotton Mather Mills one,time pen name of Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist
• Cotton Howard son of actress Kami Cotler ("The Waltons")
• Cyrus Cotton "Cy" Hungerford American editorial cartoonist

The name Cotton in Pop Culture

• Cotton Brown transgender character in the TV show “Star”
• Cotton Weary character in the "Scream" films
• Cotton Hill character in the animated series King of the Hill, a World War II veteran, who had his shins "blowed off by a Japanman's machine gun" in combat and later had his feet attached to his knees
• "Cotton Eyed Joe," traditional American country folk song