How common is the surname Coy?

13,875 people in the United States had the surname Coy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,252 Americans. It ranked 2,597th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Coy?

In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Coy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Coy getting more or less common?

Less common. 15,561 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,875 in 2010, down 11%.

The surname Coy

An occupational surname, carried by 13,875 people in the United States.

Pronounced /kɔɪ/ 1 syllable Soundex C000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coy is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

The community is named after local merchant George McCoy.

Coy 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 13,875 people named Coy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,252 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,561.

#2,597

rank among US surnames

13,875

people in 2010

4.7

per 100,000 Americans

-10.8%

change since 2000 (was #2,142)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,588	Moeller	13,915	22,188
#2,589	Luther	13,906	22,202
#2,590	Lofton	13,900	22,212
#2,591	Myles	13,898	22,215
#2,593	Humphreys	13,895	22,220
#2,594	Renner	13,889	22,230
#2,595	Alves	13,882	22,241

Who is named Coy

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

83% of people named Coy identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 5.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.9%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Coye

Surnames that sound like Coy

Coy has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.

Questions

Where does the surname Coy come from?: The community is named after local merchant George McCoy.
How common is the surname Coy?: 13,875 people in the United States had the surname Coy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,252 Americans. It ranked 2,597th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Coy?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Coy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Coy?: Coy is /kɔɪ/, one syllable.
What type of surname is Coy?: Coy is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Coy getting more or less common?: Less common. 15,561 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,875 in 2010, down 11%.
What are other spellings of Coy?: Coye.