How common is the surname Cournoyer?

2,496 people in the United States had the surname Cournoyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,696 Americans. It ranked 12,444th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cournoyer?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cournoyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Cournoyer getting more or less common?

More common. 2,397 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,496 in 2010, up 4.1%.

The surname Cournoyer

A surname, carried by 2,496 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C656

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cournoyer is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,496 people named Cournoyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,696 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,397.

#12,444

rank among US surnames

2,496

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4.1%

change since 2000 (was #11,954)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,435	Wittenberg	2,498	123,597
#12,440	Tobler	2,497	123,647
#12,444	Cournoyer	2,496	123,696
#12,447	Coady	2,494	123,795
#12,452	Karlin	2,493	123,845

Who is named Cournoyer

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

87% of people named Cournoyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
American Indian and Alaska Native 9.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cournoyer

Corner

Cournoyer has the Soundex code C656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C656.

Questions

How common is the surname Cournoyer?: 2,496 people in the United States had the surname Cournoyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,696 Americans. It ranked 12,444th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cournoyer?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cournoyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Cournoyer getting more or less common?: More common. 2,397 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,496 in 2010, up 4.1%.