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    The surname Cohee

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,573 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C000

    Cohee: #17,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cohee #17,798, 1,573 people Cohee: #17,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cohee #17,798, 1,573 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cohee is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Munster variant of Coffey.

    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 1,573 people named Cohee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,413.

    #17,798
    rank among US surnames
    1,573
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.3%
    change since 2000 (was #18,165)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,789Lafortune1,574196,153
    #17,798Baas1,573196,278

    Who is named Cohee

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

    87% of people named Cohee identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cohea
    • Coohee

    Surnames that sound like Cohee

    Cohee has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cohee come from?
    Munster variant of Coffey.
    How common is the surname Cohee?
    1,573 people in the United States had the surname Cohee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. It ranked 17,798th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cohee?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cohee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cohee getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,413 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,573 in 2010, up 11%.
    What are other spellings of Cohee?
    Cohea and Coohee.