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    The surname Coit

    A surname, carried by 1,126 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C300

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coit is more common than 86% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,126 people named Coit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 274,197 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,097.

    #22,749
    rank among US surnames
    1,126
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,033)

    Who is named Coit

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

    64% of people named Coit identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 64%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coit

    Coit has the Soundex code C300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Coit?
    1,126 people in the United States had the surname Coit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,197 Americans. It ranked 22,749th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coit?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Coit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Coit getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,097 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,126 in 2010, up 2.6%.