The surname Cobo
A Spanish surname, carried by 1,210 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C100
Origin
Spanish origin
Borrowed from Spanish Cobo.
One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,210 people named Cobo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 255,162 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,026.
Who is named Cobo
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Cobo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 20% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 78%
- White (not Hispanic) 20%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Two or more races 0.4%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cobo has the Soundex code C100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C100.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Cobo come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Cobo.
- How common is the surname Cobo?
- 1,210 people in the United States had the surname Cobo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 255,162 Americans. It ranked 21,568th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cobo?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Cobo identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 20% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Cobo getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,026 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,210 in 2010, up 18%.