Cotten Family History
Cotten Name Meaning
English (southern): variant of Cotton . Altered form of German Kotten a habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland Westphalia Silesia etc. or perhaps an American shortened form of composite German surnames such as Kottenhagen Kottenhoff Kottenkamp (see Koth ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022