# Coghill (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/coghill/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,447 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,883 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 213,369 people |
| Change since 2000 | -2.0% (1,476 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Cohill |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in North Yorkshire, from Old English cot (“cottage”) + Old Norse kelda (“well, spring”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Coghill in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Coghill in the United States.

## People named Coghill

- Jack Coghill, American politician (1925–2019)

## Similar surnames

Cogswell, Cowgill, Chagolla, Cagle, Cecil, Caswell, Cassell, Coakley, Cassel, Casale, Casella, Chesley.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.