Coakley

At the 2020 census, 5,840 Americans bore the surname Coakley — 5,717th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 51,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,840
Rank: 5,717th
How common: 1 in 51,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Caochlaoich (“son of Caochlaoch”), a personal name composed of the elements caoch (“blind”) + laoch (“hero”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Coakley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.4%
Black, not Hispanic 19.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Coakley

Martha Coakley (born 1953)American lobbyist and lawyer
Paul Stagg Coakley (born 1955)Catholic archbishop

People named Coakley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Coakley

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.