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    The surname Coey

    A French nickname surname, carried by 634 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C000

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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). Coey is more common than 78.1% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

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

    Coey is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 634 people named Coey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 486,980 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 656.

    #35,489
    rank among US surnames
    634
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #32,939)

    Who is named Coey

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

    94% of people named Coey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Coey

    Coey has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Coey come from?
    From Old French coi (“shy, coy, timid”), a nickname for a shy person. It could also be a variant of Cowie.
    How common is the surname Coey?
    634 people in the United States had the surname Coey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 486,980 Americans. It ranked 35,489th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coey?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Coey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Coey?
    Coey is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Coey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 656 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 634 in 2010, down 3.4%.