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    The surname Coffer

    A surname, carried by 1,377 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C160

    Coffer: #19,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coffer #19,590, 1,377 people Coffer: #19,590 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coffer #19,590, 1,377 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coffer is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,377 people named Coffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. That is down 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,497.

    #19,590
    rank among US surnames
    1,377
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8%
    change since 2000 (was #17,388)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,581Maclaren1,378224,053
    #19,590Kaczynski1,377224,216

    Who is named Coffer

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

    66% of people named Coffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coffer

    Coffer 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 Coffer?
    1,377 people in the United States had the surname Coffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. It ranked 19,590th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coffer?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Coffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Coffer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,497 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,377 in 2010, down 8.0%.