How common is the surname Cogan?

3,631 people in the United States had the surname Cogan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,030 Americans. It ranked 9,006th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cogan?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Cogan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Cogan getting more or less common?

About as common. 3,630 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,631 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Cogan

A surname, carried by 3,631 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C250

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cogan is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,631 people named Cogan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,030 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,630.

#9,006

rank among US surnames

3,631

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #8,371)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,999	Turgeon	3,635	84,937
#9,001	Nolt	3,634	84,960
#9,003	Hames	3,633	84,984
#9,006	Cogan	3,631	85,030
#9,011	Hirst	3,630	85,054
#9,013	Traynor	3,628	85,101

Who is named Cogan

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

93% of people named Cogan identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cogan

Cogan has the Soundex code C250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C250.

Questions

How common is the surname Cogan?: 3,631 people in the United States had the surname Cogan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,030 Americans. It ranked 9,006th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cogan?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Cogan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Cogan getting more or less common?: About as common. 3,630 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,631 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.