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    The surname Coger

    A surname, carried by 1,219 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C260

    Coger: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coger #21,439, 1,219 people Coger: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coger #21,439, 1,219 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coger is more common than 86.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,219 people named Coger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,158.

    #21,439
    rank among US surnames
    1,219
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.3%
    change since 2000 (was #21,124)

    Who is named Coger

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

    52% of people named Coger identified as white (not Hispanic), 40% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 52%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 40%
    • Two or more races 3.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coger

    Coger 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 Coger?
    1,219 people in the United States had the surname Coger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coger?
    In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Coger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 40% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Coger getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,158 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, up 5.3%.