How common is the surname Coates?

23,725 people in the United States had the surname Coates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,014 Americans. It ranked 1,512th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Coates?

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American writer, journalist, and educator, followed by Florence Earle Coates.

Where is the surname Coates most common?

Wikidata records people named Coates in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Coates?

Coates is /koʊts/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Coates getting more or less common?

More common. 21,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,725 in 2010, up 9.6%.

The surname Coates

A surname, carried by 23,725 people in the United States.

Pronounced /koʊts/ 2 syllables Soundex C320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coates is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 23,725 people named Coates in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,014 Americans. That is up 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,652.

#1,512

rank among US surnames

23,725

people in 2010

8.0

per 100,000 Americans

+9.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,523)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,504	Hollingsworth	23,831	12,956
#1,505	Clement	23,830	12,956
#1,506	Devine	23,775	12,986
#1,507	Crockett	23,769	12,989
#1,508	Benavides	23,761	12,994
#1,509	Bullard	23,755	12,997
#1,510	Louis	23,738	13,006

Who is named Coates

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

69% of people named Coates identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 69%
Black (not Hispanic) 25%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Coatess

12 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ta-Nehisi Coates
American writer, journalist, and educator, born 1975
Florence Earle Coates
American writer and poet (1850-1927)
Phyllis Coates
American actress (1927–2023)
Albert Coates
British conductor (1882-1953)
John H Coates
Australian mathematician (1945–2022)
Eric Coates
British composer (1886–1957)
Gloria Coates
American composer, 1933–2023
John Coates
Australian sports administrator, born 1950
Odia Coates
American musician (1941–1991)
Conrad Coates
British actor, born 1970
Alaina Coates
American basketball player (born 1995)
Robert M. Coates
American novelist, short story writer and art critic (1897–1973)

Notable Coatess come mostly from the United States (7), Australia (2) and the United Kingdom (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coates

Coates has the Soundex code C320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C320.

Questions

How common is the surname Coates?: 23,725 people in the United States had the surname Coates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,014 Americans. It ranked 1,512th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coates?: In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Coates identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Coates?: Ta-Nehisi Coates, American writer, journalist, and educator, followed by Florence Earle Coates.
Where is the surname Coates most common?: Wikidata records people named Coates in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Coates?: Coates is /koʊts/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Coates getting more or less common?: More common. 21,652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,725 in 2010, up 9.6%.