The surname Corkery
An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 1,433 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex C626
Origin
Irish origin
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Corcra (“descendant of Corcra”), a personal name derived from corcair (“purple”).
Corkery is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,433 people named Corkery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,454 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,256.
Who is named Corkery
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Corkery identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Corkery has the Soundex code C626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C626.
Other Irish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Corkery come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Corcra (“descendant of Corcra”), a personal name derived from corcair (“purple”).
- How common is the surname Corkery?
- 1,433 people in the United States had the surname Corkery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,454 Americans. It ranked 19,012th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Corkery?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Corkery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Corkery?
- Corkery is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Corkery getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,256 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,433 in 2010, up 14%.