The surname Cowgill
A surname, carried by 2,628 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C240
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,628 people named Cowgill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 117,483 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,561.
#11,914
rank among US surnames
2,628
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+2.6%
change since 2000 (was #11,321)
Who is named Cowgill
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Cowgill identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Cowgill has the Soundex code C240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C240.
Questions
- How common is the surname Cowgill?
- 2,628 people in the United States had the surname Cowgill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 117,483 Americans. It ranked 11,914th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cowgill?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Cowgill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Cowgill getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,561 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,628 in 2010, up 2.6%.