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    The surname Coats

    A surname, carried by 15,943 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C320

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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). Coats is more common than 98.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 15,943 people named Coats in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,366 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,265.

    #2,286
    rank among US surnames
    15,943
    people in 2010
    5.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #2,185)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,277Robledo16,00119,295
    #2,278Espino15,99719,300
    #2,279Hauser15,98119,320
    #2,280Cleary15,98019,321
    #2,281Nugent15,97719,324
    #2,282Boudreaux15,97619,326
    #2,283Nickerson15,97019,333

    Who is named Coats

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

    73% of people named Coats identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Coatss

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Dan Coats
      5th Director of National Intelligence, former United States Senator from Indiana, born 1943
    • Michael Coats
      American astronaut, born 1946
    • Claude Coats
      American background artist (1913-1992)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coats

    Coats 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 Coats?
    15,943 people in the United States had the surname Coats in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,366 Americans. It ranked 2,286th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coats?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Coats identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Coats?
    Dan Coats, 5th Director of National Intelligence, former United States Senator from Indiana, followed by Michael Coats.
    Where is the surname Coats most common?
    Wikidata records people named Coats in the United States.
    Is the surname Coats getting more or less common?
    More common. 15,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 15,943 in 2010, up 4.4%.