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The COBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 942 24807 0 4
United States (1880 census) 300 14287 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +642 -10520 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 4 178923 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 125 13202 0.001 6
Florida 92 18574 0.001 6
Ohio 83 15799 0.001 7
Maryland 71 8109 0.001 13
New York 64 28693 0.000 3
Top States for COBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 27 5810 0.001 15
Maryland 71 8109 0.001 13
Alabama 59 6813 0.001 13
Indiana 57 12221 0.001 9
Idaho 12 13931 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COBY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COBY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COBY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COBY by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COBY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COBY surname.

Ethnic distribution of COBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 437 46.39
Black/African American 396 42.04
Native American/Alaskan 59 6.26
White (Hispanic) 35 3.72
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COBY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

COBY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of COBY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COBY.

Similar names to COBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COBY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COBY

The following words are slight variants of COBY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.