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    The surname Coursey

    A surname, carried by 3,862 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C620

    Coursey: #8,523 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coursey #8,523, 3,862 people Coursey: #8,523 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coursey #8,523, 3,862 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coursey is more common than 94.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,862 people named Coursey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,944 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,643.

    #8,523
    rank among US surnames
    3,862
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #8,351)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,517Lepage3,86579,882
    #8,518Pegues3,86479,903
    #8,523Coursey3,86279,944
    #8,525Sines3,86179,965
    #8,526Mathers3,86079,986
    #8,527Drain3,85980,007
    #8,529Moretti3,85880,027

    Who is named Coursey

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

    84% of people named Coursey identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coursey

    Coursey has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Coursey?
    3,862 people in the United States had the surname Coursey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,944 Americans. It ranked 8,523rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coursey?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Coursey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Coursey getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,643 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,862 in 2010, up 6.0%.