How common is the surname Cogar?

2,776 people in the United States had the surname Cogar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,220 Americans. It ranked 11,365th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cogar?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Cogar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Cogar getting more or less common?

More common. 2,660 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,776 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Cogar

A surname, carried by 2,776 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cogar is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,776 people named Cogar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,220 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,660.

#11,365

rank among US surnames

2,776

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,976)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,362	Roussel	2,777	111,180
#11,365	Cogar	2,776	111,220
#11,368	Nunnery	2,775	111,260
#11,371	MacIntyre	2,774	111,300
#11,374	Gessner	2,773	111,340

Who is named Cogar

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

92% of people named Cogar identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
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 Cogar

Cogar has the Soundex code C260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C260.

Questions

How common is the surname Cogar?: 2,776 people in the United States had the surname Cogar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,220 Americans. It ranked 11,365th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cogar?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Cogar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Cogar getting more or less common?: More common. 2,660 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,776 in 2010, up 4.4%.