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    The surname Cofer

    A surname, carried by 4,561 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C160

    Cofer: #7,315 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cofer #7,315, 4,561 people Cofer: #7,315 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cofer #7,315, 4,561 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cofer is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,561 people named Cofer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,693 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,574.

    #7,315
    rank among US surnames
    4,561
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #6,792)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,308Levan4,56467,648
    #7,311Casale4,56367,663
    #7,314Struble4,56267,678
    #7,315Cofer4,56167,693
    #7,317Monte4,56067,707
    #7,319Raby4,55967,722
    #7,320Blades4,55867,737

    Who is named Cofer

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

    72% of people named Cofer identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cofer

    Cofer has the Soundex code C160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cofer?
    4,561 people in the United States had the surname Cofer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,693 Americans. It ranked 7,315th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cofer?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Cofer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cofer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 4,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,561 in 2010, down 0.3%.