Cochran

At the 2020 census, 56,354 Americans bore the surname Cochran — 581st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,304.

By the numbers

People: 56,354
Rank: 581st
How common: 1 in 5,304
Per 100,000: 18.9

Where the name comes from

Variant of Cochrane.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.2%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cochran

Eddie Cochran (1938–1960)American rock and roll pioneer
Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980)American aviator and businesswoman
Thad Cochran (1937–2019)United States Senator from Mississippi
Roy Cochran (1919–1981)American sprinter and hurdler
Barbara Cochran (born 1951)American alpine skier
Steve Cochran (1917–1965)American actor
William Gemmell Cochran (1909–1980)British / American statistician
Commodore Cochran (1902–1969)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Cochran

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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.