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The surname Cothren

A surname, carried by 1,691 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C365

Cothren: #16,864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cothren #16,864, 1,691 people Cothren: #16,864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cothren #16,864, 1,691 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cothren is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,691 people named Cothren in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,582 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,570.

#16,864
rank among US surnames
1,691
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+7.7%
change since 2000 (was #16,754)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,856Loiacono1,693182,366
#16,860Cermak1,692182,474
#16,864Doyal1,691182,582
#16,868Chmiel1,690182,690

Who is named Cothren

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

95% of people named Cothren identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
  • Two or more races 1.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cothren

Cothren has the Soundex code C365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C365.

Questions

How common is the surname Cothren?
1,691 people in the United States had the surname Cothren in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,582 Americans. It ranked 16,864th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cothren?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Cothren identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Cothren getting more or less common?
More common. 1,570 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,691 in 2010, up 7.7%.