# Coble (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/coble/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 9,204 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,846 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 33,545 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.2% (9,010 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Middle English cobel (“coble, rowboat”), a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of such or a sailor. See modern coble. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kobel, Goebel.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Coble in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Coble in the United States.

## People named Coble

- Howard Coble, American politician (1931-2015)

## Similar surnames

Cable, Cobble, Cauble, Copley, Copple, Chappell, Coppola, Cabello, Chapple, Cavallo, Covell, Cappello.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.