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The surname Coldwell

A surname, carried by 1,389 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C434

Coldwell: #19,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coldwell #19,456, 1,389 people Coldwell: #19,456 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coldwell #19,456, 1,389 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coldwell is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,389 people named Coldwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,279 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,395.

#19,456
rank among US surnames
1,389
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-0.4%
change since 2000 (was #18,329)

Who is named Coldwell

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

85% of people named Coldwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 8.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • 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 Coldwell

Coldwell has the Soundex code C434, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C434.

Questions

How common is the surname Coldwell?
1,389 people in the United States had the surname Coldwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,279 Americans. It ranked 19,456th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coldwell?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Coldwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Coldwell getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,389 in 2010, down 0.4%.