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    The surname Coello

    A Galician surname, carried by 2,919 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C400

    Coello: #10,907 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coello #10,907, 2,919 people Coello: #10,907 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coello #10,907, 2,919 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coello is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    Galician origin

    A surname from Galician.

    One of 34 Galician surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,919 people named Coello in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,771 Americans. That is up 67% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,751.

    #10,907
    rank among US surnames
    2,919
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +66.7%
    change since 2000 (was #15,384)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,900Mozingo2,921105,699
    #10,903Wigley2,920105,735
    #10,907Gleeson2,919105,771
    #10,910Goodyear2,918105,807
    #10,912Edelstein2,917105,844
    #10,914Kinchen2,916105,880

    Who is named Coello

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

    89% of people named Coello identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 9.0% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 89%
    • White (not Hispanic) 9.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coello

    Coello has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Other Galician surnames

    All 34 Galician surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Coello come from?
    Coello is Galician in origin.
    How common is the surname Coello?
    2,919 people in the United States had the surname Coello in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,771 Americans. It ranked 10,907th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coello?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Coello identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 9.0% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Coello getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,751 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,919 in 2010, up 67%.