How common is the surname Coviello?

1,542 people in the United States had the surname Coviello in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,224 Americans. It ranked 18,078th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Coviello?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Coviello identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Coviello getting more or less common?

More common. 1,437 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,542 in 2010, up 7.3%.

The surname Coviello

A surname, carried by 1,542 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex C140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coviello is more common than 88.9% of them.

Origin

Borrowed from a Romance language, related to Covillo, likely derived from a masculine noun (thus the -o inflection). The 2010 US Census finding that the name 'Coviello' was most commonly held by white people suggests it is not a Latin-American Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese surname, though possibly from their European counterparts or Italian.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,542 people named Coviello in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,224 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,437.

#18,078

rank among US surnames

1,542

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+7.3%

change since 2000 (was #17,935)

Who is named Coviello

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

96% of people named Coviello identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Coviello

Coviello has the Soundex code C140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C140.

Questions

Where does the surname Coviello come from?: Borrowed from a Romance language, related to Covillo, likely derived from a masculine noun (thus the -o inflection). The 2010 US Census finding that the name 'Coviello' was most commonly held by white people suggests it is not a Latin-American Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese surname, though…
How common is the surname Coviello?: 1,542 people in the United States had the surname Coviello in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,224 Americans. It ranked 18,078th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coviello?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Coviello identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Coviello getting more or less common?: More common. 1,437 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,542 in 2010, up 7.3%.