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    The surname Coale

    A surname, carried by 1,186 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C400

    Coale: #21,895 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coale #21,895, 1,186 people Coale: #21,895 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coale #21,895, 1,186 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coale is more common than 86.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,186 people named Coale in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 260,325 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,179.

    #21,895
    rank among US surnames
    1,186
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #20,817)

    Who is named Coale

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Coale identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coale

    Coale has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Coale?
    1,186 people in the United States had the surname Coale in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 260,325 Americans. It ranked 21,895th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coale?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Coale identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Coale getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,179 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,186 in 2010, up 0.6%.