How common is the surname Coil?

2,656 people in the United States had the surname Coil in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,245 Americans. It ranked 11,793rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Coil?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Coil identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Coil getting more or less common?

More common. 2,120 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,656 in 2010, up 25%.

The surname Coil

A surname, carried by 2,656 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coil is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,656 people named Coil in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,245 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,120.

#11,793

rank among US surnames

2,656

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+25.3%

change since 2000 (was #13,207)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,789	Sweigart	2,658	116,157
#11,792	Grossi	2,657	116,201
#11,793	Leavell	2,656	116,245
#11,797	Borman	2,655	116,288
#11,799	Janda	2,654	116,332
#11,801	Feagin	2,653	116,376

Who is named Coil

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

87% of people named Coil identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coil

Coil has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

Questions

How common is the surname Coil?: 2,656 people in the United States had the surname Coil in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,245 Americans. It ranked 11,793rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coil?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Coil identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Coil getting more or less common?: More common. 2,120 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,656 in 2010, up 25%.