Coffey

At the 2020 census, 34,539 Americans bore the surname Coffey — 992nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,654.

By the numbers

People: 34,539
Rank: 992nd
How common: 1 in 8,654
Per 100,000: 11.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Coffey

Thérèse Coffey (born 1971)British politician
Paul Coffey (born 1961)Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Sam Coffey (born 1998)American soccer player
Scott Coffey (born 1964)American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Calvin Coffey (born 1951)American rower
Amir Coffey (born 1997)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Coffey

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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.