Coates

At the 2020 census, 22,700 Americans bore the surname Coates — 1,541st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,700
Rank: 1,541st
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.7%
Black, not Hispanic 24.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Coates

Sebastián Coates (born 1990)Uruguayan association football player
Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975)American writer, journalist, and educator
Kim Coates (born 1958)Canadian actor
Anne V. Coates (1925–2018)British film editor
Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)American writer and poet
Albert Coates (1882–1953)British conductor
Phyllis Coates (1927–2023)American actress
John H Coates (1945–2022)Australian mathematician

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

Surnames like Coates

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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.