# Coey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/coey/  
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 Old French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 634 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,489 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 486,980 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.4% (656 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old French coi (“shy, coy, timid”), a nickname for a shy person. It could also be a variant of Cowie.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Coey 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Similar surnames

Coe, Coy, Co, Couey, Choe, Choy, Cohee, Choi, Cho, Chu, Cao, Chow.

## 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.