The surname Cothran
A surname, carried by 4,005 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C365
Origin
Perhaps a variant of Cochrane or Cawthorne.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,005 people named Cothran in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,090 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,920.
Who is named Cothran
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Cothran identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cothran has the Soundex code C365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C365.
Questions
- Where does the surname Cothran come from?
- Perhaps a variant of Cochrane or Cawthorne.
- How common is the surname Cothran?
- 4,005 people in the United States had the surname Cothran in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,090 Americans. It ranked 8,277th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cothran?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Cothran identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Cothran getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,920 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,005 in 2010, up 2.2%.