Cotón
surname · Latin script
Meaning: printed cotton fabric (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Cotón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 53K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 162K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Coton in GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, ES Spain and 2 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)printed cotton fabric
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cotón is found
(measured from records)Cotón 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 67 | Coton | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Coton | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Coton | 102 |
| ES Spain | 308 | 1 in 162K | 308 | Coton | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 220 | 1 in 53K | 220 | Coton | 13 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cotón is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, fur, fluff, fuzz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cotón mean, and where does it come from?
- printed cotton fabric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cotón?
- Mondonomo estimates about 743 people named Cotón in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coton. After it come Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Cotón most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cotón is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cotón?
- In Spain, the national register counted 308 people named Cotón, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cotón?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cot%C3%B3nThe 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, “Cotón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.