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The surname Koger

A surname, carried by 3,660 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K260

Koger: #8,944 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Koger #8,944, 3,660 people Koger: #8,944 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Koger #8,944, 3,660 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Koger is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,660 people named Koger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,357 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,409.

#8,944
rank among US surnames
3,660
people in 2010
1.2
per 100,000 Americans
+7.4%
change since 2000 (was #8,841)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,938Galligan3,66384,288
#8,939Cram3,66284,311
#8,941Zhen3,66184,334
#8,944Koger3,66084,357
#8,946Blackstone3,65984,380
#8,950Clyde3,65884,403

Who is named Koger

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

72% of people named Koger identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 72%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • 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 Koger

Koger has the Soundex code K260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K260.

Questions

How common is the surname Koger?
3,660 people in the United States had the surname Koger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,357 Americans. It ranked 8,944th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Koger?
In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Koger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Koger getting more or less common?
More common. 3,409 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,660 in 2010, up 7.4%.