Coles

At the 2020 census, 13,912 Americans bore the surname Coles — 2,531st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,912
Rank: 2,531st
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.7

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 Coles described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 46.1%
White, not Hispanic 42.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Coles

Bimbo Coles (born 1968)American basketball player
Richard Coles (born 1962)British musician, writer, presenter and priest
Dane Coles (born 1986)New Zealand rugby union player
Johnny Coles (1926–1997)American trumpeter
Kim Coles (born 1962)American actress and comedian
Edward Coles (1786–1868)2nd governor of Illinois
Charles Coles (1911–1992)American tap dancer

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

Surnames like Coles

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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.