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    The surname Cowart

    A surname, carried by 11,621 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C630

    Cowart: #3,095 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Cowart #3,095, 11,621 people Cowart: #3,095 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cowart #3,095, 11,621 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cowart is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,621 people named Cowart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,568 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,243.

    #3,095
    rank among US surnames
    11,621
    people in 2010
    3.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #2,939)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,086Bigelow11,65026,502
    #3,087Helm11,64926,504
    #3,088Bull11,64626,511
    #3,089Dockery11,64426,515
    #3,091Matias11,63526,536
    #3,092Boland11,63126,545
    #3,093Spain11,62826,552

    Who is named Cowart

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

    81% of people named Cowart identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cowart

    Cowart has the Soundex code C630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C630.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cowart?
    11,621 people in the United States had the surname Cowart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,568 Americans. It ranked 3,095th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cowart?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Cowart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cowart getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,243 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,621 in 2010, up 3.4%.