Covey

8,371 people in the United States were counted with the surname Covey in the 2020 census, making it the 4,116th most common in the country. That is about one person in 35,700.

By the numbers

People: 8,371
Rank: 4,116th
How common: 1 in 35,700
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced form of McCovey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Covey

Stephen Covey (1932–2012)American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Wendi McLendon-Covey (born 1969)American actress
Richard O. Covey (born 1946)American astronaut
Rachel Covey (born 1998)American actress

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

Surnames like Covey

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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.