How common is the surname Cote?

21,446 people in the United States had the surname Cote in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,396 Americans. It ranked 1,681st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cote?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Cote identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Cote getting more or less common?

More common. 20,894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,446 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Cote

A French surname, carried by 21,446 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cote is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

French origin

From French Côté, from Latin costa.

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,446 people named Cote in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,396 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,894.

#1,681

rank among US surnames

21,446

people in 2010

7.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,575)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,672	Cornell	21,558	14,322
#1,673	Arreola	21,540	14,334
#1,674	Siegel	21,536	14,336
#1,675	Hankins	21,532	14,339
#1,676	Raines	21,518	14,348
#1,677	Thacker	21,512	14,352
#1,678	Sadler	21,504	14,358

Who is named Cote

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

94% of people named Cote identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cote

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

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Cote come from?: From French Côté, from Latin costa.
How common is the surname Cote?: 21,446 people in the United States had the surname Cote in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,396 Americans. It ranked 1,681st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cote?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Cote identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Cote getting more or less common?: More common. 20,894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,446 in 2010, up 2.6%.