How common is the surname Coons?

8,466 people in the United States had the surname Coons in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,469 Americans. It ranked 4,185th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Coons?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Coons identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Coons?

Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician (born 1963), followed by Armitage Trail.

Where is the surname Coons most common?

Wikidata records people named Coons in the United States.

How do you pronounce Coons?

Coons is /kuːnz/, one syllable.

Is the surname Coons getting more or less common?

More common. 8,374 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,466 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Coons

A surname, carried by 8,466 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kuːnz/ 1 syllable Soundex C520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coons is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,466 people named Coons in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,469 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,374.

#4,185

rank among US surnames

8,466

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,899)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,176	Candelaria	8,483	36,396
#4,177	Liao	8,482	36,400
#4,178	Barnette	8,480	36,409
#4,179	Batts	8,473	36,439
#4,180	Montelongo	8,472	36,443
#4,182	Wasson	8,471	36,447
#4,184	Cartagena	8,467	36,465

Who is named Coons

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

93% of people named Coons identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Coonss

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Chris Coons
American lawyer and politician (born 1963)
Armitage Trail
American crime writer (1902–1930)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coons

Coons has the Soundex code C520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C520.

Questions

How common is the surname Coons?: 8,466 people in the United States had the surname Coons in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,469 Americans. It ranked 4,185th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coons?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Coons identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Coons?: Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician (born 1963), followed by Armitage Trail.
Where is the surname Coons most common?: Wikidata records people named Coons in the United States.
How do you pronounce Coons?: Coons is /kuːnz/, one syllable.
Is the surname Coons getting more or less common?: More common. 8,374 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,466 in 2010, up 1.1%.