The surname Coram
A surname, carried by 1,085 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C650
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,085 people named Coram in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 284,558 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,044.
#23,432
rank among US surnames
1,085
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.9%
change since 2000 (was #22,891)
Who is named Coram
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Coram identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Coram has the Soundex code C650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C650.
Questions
- How common is the surname Coram?
- 1,085 people in the United States had the surname Coram in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 284,558 Americans. It ranked 23,432nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Coram?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Coram identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Coram getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,085 in 2010, up 3.9%.