Coleman

At the 2020 census, 211,259 Americans bore the surname Coleman — 110th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,415.

By the numbers

People: 211,259
Rank: 110th
How common: 1 in 1,415
Per 100,000: 70.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.6%
Black, not Hispanic 43.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Coleman

Gary Coleman (1968–2010)American actor
Ornette Coleman (1930–2015)American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
Séamus Coleman (born 1988)Irish association football player
Ronnie Coleman (born 1963)American IFBB professional bodybuilder
Jenna Coleman (born 1986)British actress
Bessie Coleman (1892–1926)American aviator
Catherine Coleman (born 1960)American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
Chris Coleman (born 1970)Welsh association football player and manager

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

Surnames like Coleman

Also a first name

Coleman has been given to 17,628 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1997. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.