The surname Couey
A surname, carried by 1,788 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C000
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,788 people named Couey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,676 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,356.
#16,166
rank among US surnames
1,788
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+31.9%
change since 2000 (was #18,712)
Who is named Couey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Couey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Couey has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.
Questions
- How common is the surname Couey?
- 1,788 people in the United States had the surname Couey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,676 Americans. It ranked 16,166th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Couey?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Couey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Couey getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,356 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,788 in 2010, up 32%.