Coughlin

At the 2020 census, 13,898 Americans bore the surname Coughlin — 2,534th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,898
Rank: 2,534th
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cochláin (“descendant of Cochlán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of cochal (“cloak, hood”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Coughlin

Natalie Coughlin (born 1982)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
Charles Coughlin (1891–1979)Canadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentator
Tom Coughlin (born 1946)American football player and coach

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

Surnames like Coughlin

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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.