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The surname Kogut

A Polish surname, carried by 1,600 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K230

Kogut: #17,572 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kogut #17,572, 1,600 people Kogut: #17,572 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kogut #17,572, 1,600 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kogut is more common than 89.2% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

From Polish kogut (“rooster”).

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,600 people named Kogut in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,966 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,596.

#17,572
rank among US surnames
1,600
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+0.3%
change since 2000 (was #16,562)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#17,565Herdman1,601192,845
#17,572Highley1,600192,966

Who is named Kogut

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

95% of people named Kogut identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kogut

Kogut has the Soundex code K230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K230.

Other Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kogut come from?
From Polish kogut (“rooster”).
How common is the surname Kogut?
1,600 people in the United States had the surname Kogut in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,966 Americans. It ranked 17,572nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kogut?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kogut identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kogut getting more or less common?
More common. 1,596 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,600 in 2010, up 0.3%.