Coble

Coble is the 3,997th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,623 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 34,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,623
Rank: 3,997th
How common: 1 in 34,700
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from Middle English cobel (“coble, rowboat”), a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of such or a sailor. See modern coble.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Coble

Howard Coble (1931–2015)American politician

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

Surnames like Coble

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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.