Cotton
2025 SSA
About Cotton
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.
Pronounced KAH-tun.
As of October 2026, Cotton ranked #8388 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #3526 in 2015.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,419 | 22 | 11.5 |
| 2015 | #3,526 | 31 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | #4,777 | 20 | 11 |
| 2019 | #4,509 | 22 | 12.3 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Cotton on lists
Famous Cottons
- 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
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