Cope

At the 2020 census, 17,599 Americans bore the surname Cope — 2,009th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,000.

By the numbers

People: 17,599
Rank: 2,009th
How common: 1 in 17,000
Per 100,000: 5.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897)American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist
Marianne Cope (1838–1918)German-American Franciscan Sister, missionary and saint
Jean-François Copé (born 1964)French politician
Jamie Cope (born 1985)English snooker player
Julian Cope (born 1957)British musician and author
Haley Cope (born 1979)American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Wendy Cope (born 1945)British writer

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

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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.