Cotton
Recorded for boysGen Z2025 rank
#8,388
up +70 places
2025 births
9
unchanged births
All-time births
507
2% of them in 2025
More common than
83%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2015
- 31 births
- Best rank
- #3,527
- in 2015
- First recorded
- 1918
- #4,307 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2007
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 41 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201531#3,527Peak
- 201130#3,528
- 201422#4,421
- 201922#4,510
- 201320#4,652
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3,527 in 2015 · peak births 31 in 2015
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Cotton has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.