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The surname Coatney

A surname, carried by 1,703 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C350

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coatney is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,703 people named Coatney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,295 Americans. That is up 7.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,580.

#16,775
rank among US surnames
1,703
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+7.8%
change since 2000 (was #16,682)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,775Coatney1,703181,295
#16,781Dechant1,702181,402

Who is named Coatney

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

82% of people named Coatney identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 82%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
  • Two or more races 2.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coatney

Coatney has the Soundex code C350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C350.

Questions

How common is the surname Coatney?
1,703 people in the United States had the surname Coatney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,295 Americans. It ranked 16,775th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coatney?
In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Coatney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Coatney getting more or less common?
More common. 1,580 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,703 in 2010, up 7.8%.