# Coverdale (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/coverdale/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,304 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,382 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 236,768 people |
| Change since 2000 | -4.4% (1,364 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

*The valley in North Yorkshire is named from the River Cover + dale. *The civil parish in New Brunswick is named after a former name of the Little River.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Coverdale in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Coverdale in the United States.

## People named Coverdale

- Ruth Ann Minner, American politician and businesswoman (1935–2021)

## Similar surnames

Covert, Capehart, Caperton, Cypert.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.