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    The surname Coffie

    An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 596 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C100

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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). Coffie is more common than 77% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Coffey,Cuffee,Cuffe,Cuffy, Cuffey. From the Akan given name Kofi, "boy born on a Friday", thus also a patronymic surname common among African-American and Afro-Caribbean communities.

    Coffie is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 596 people named Coffie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 518,029 Americans. That is up 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 547.

    #37,391
    rank among US surnames
    596
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9%
    change since 2000 (was #38,079)

    Who is named Coffie

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

    62% of people named Coffie identified as Black (not Hispanic), 26% as white (not Hispanic) and 8.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 62%
    • White (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.9%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coffie

    Coffie has the Soundex code C100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C100.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Coffie come from?
    Variant of Coffey,Cuffee,Cuffe,Cuffy, Cuffey. From the Akan given name Kofi, "boy born on a Friday", thus also a patronymic surname common among African-American and Afro-Caribbean communities.
    How common is the surname Coffie?
    596 people in the United States had the surname Coffie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 518,029 Americans. It ranked 37,391st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coffie?
    In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Coffie identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 26% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Coffie?
    Coffie is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
    Is the surname Coffie getting more or less common?
    More common. 547 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 596 in 2010, up 9.0%.