Cote

Cote is the 1,720th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,395 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,700.

By the numbers

People: 20,395
Rank: 1,720th
How common: 1 in 14,700
Per 100,000: 6.8

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From French Côté, from Latin costa.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Cote

Paul Côté (1944–2013)sailor
Patrick Côté (born 1980)Canadian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
Denis Côté (born 1973)French Canadian filmmaker

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

Surnames like Cote

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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.