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The COCHRAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 58,233 514 0.022 216
United States (1880 census) 12,893 459 0.026 258
Change since 1880 +45340 -55 -0.004 -42
Other Countries
Australia 388 4090 0.002 24
United Kingdom 872 5867 0.002 19
Top States for COCHRAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 4,719 196 0.058 576
Texas 3,907 650 0.019 187
Ohio 3,688 307 0.032 325
California 3,344 985 0.010 99
Florida 3,257 594 0.020 204
Top States for COCHRAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,338 159 0.074 740
Alabama 2,584 263 0.058 581
Georgia 4,719 196 0.058 576
Mississippi 1,476 279 0.052 519
Oklahoma 1,399 295 0.041 405

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

Classification and Origin of COCHRAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COCHRAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the COCHRAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COCHRAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 827 1.42
Mixed Race 786 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 716 1.23
Asian/Pacific 210 0.36
White (Caucasian) 50,680 87.03
Black/African American 5,014 8.61

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

Meaning of COCHRAN in historical publications

(origin: Local) Cocrinn, Gaelic, a point or promontory in open sight; from Coc, manifest, plain, and rinn, a cape or promontory.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


COCHRANE. COCHRAN. The family were resident in co. Renfrew for many centuries. See Peerage, Earl of Dundouald. The name is probably local, from a place in the district of Paisley.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to COCHRAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COCHRAN.

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 COCHRAN

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