Cawthon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Cawthorne
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɔθən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cawthon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7Kas Cotton(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.6Kas Cotton
- USUnited States1 in 10Kas Cotton
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cawthon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈64,000 named Cotton, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis, as Cotton
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cotton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Cawthorne
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cawthon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Cotton | 13 |
| US United States | #916 | 33,374as Cotton | 1 in 10K | 33K | Cotton | 465 |
| GB United Kingdom | #688 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Cotton | 214 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Cotton | 151 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Cotton | 11 |
| AU Australia | #987 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Cotton | 152 |
| NZ New Zealand | #725 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Cotton | 80 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 25as Cotton | 1 in 2.2K | 25 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pete Cawthonb. 1898USAmerican football player and coach (1898-1962)
- Rainey Cawthonb. 1907USAmerican football player (1907-1991)
- Scott Cawthonb. 1978USformer independent video game developer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,733 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,773 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cawthon mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Cawthorne Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Cawthon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɔθən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cawthon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Cotton in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cawthon most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Cawthon itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is St. Kitts & Nevis's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people named Cotton.
- How common is the name Cawthon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,374 people named Cotton in 2010, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cawthon compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Cawthon is the 688th most common surname of 1,272,424 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cawthonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cawthon” — the 688th most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.