The surname Cowherd
An occupational surname, carried by 1,377 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C630
Origin
From cowherd.
Cowherd is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,377 people named Cowherd in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,319.
Who is named Cowherd
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
57% of people named Cowherd identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 57%
- Black (not Hispanic) 39%
- Two or more races 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Cowherd has the Soundex code C630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C630.
Questions
- Where does the surname Cowherd come from?
- From cowherd.
- How common is the surname Cowherd?
- 1,377 people in the United States had the surname Cowherd in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. It ranked 19,590th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cowherd?
- In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Cowherd identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Cowherd?
- Cowherd is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Cowherd getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,319 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,377 in 2010, up 4.4%.