Coe

At the 2020 census, 15,911 Americans bore the surname Coe — 2,231st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,800.

By the numbers

People: 15,911
Rank: 2,231st
How common: 1 in 18,800
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

English surname, from Middle English co and Old English ca (“jackdaw”), similar to caw, Scots ka.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.0%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Coe

Sebastian Coe (born 1956)British athlete and politician
Jonathan Coe (born 1961)English novelist
David Allan Coe (1939–2026)American country musician
George Coe (1929–2015)American actor
Michael D. Coe (1929–2019)American Mesoamericanist
Nathan Coe (born 1984)Australian soccer player
Dan Coe (1941–1981)Romanian footballer
Wesley Coe (1878–1926)American shot putter

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

Surnames like Coe

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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.