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The COCHRANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,228 3961 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,949 3039 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +6279 -922 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 2,824 558 0.017 173
United Kingdom 7,877 784 0.017 171
Top States for COCHRANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 833 3551 0.002 25
Florida 702 2884 0.004 44
New York 500 3814 0.003 26
North Carolina 492 2254 0.006 61
Massachusetts 441 1999 0.007 69
Top States for COCHRANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 117 1660 0.009 95
Idaho 121 1426 0.009 94
Maine 117 1915 0.009 92
Massachusetts 441 1999 0.007 69
North Carolina 492 2254 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of COCHRANE

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 COCHRANE 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 COCHRANE 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 COCHRANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 567 6.89
Mixed Race 128 1.56
White (Hispanic) 118 1.43
Asian/Pacific 38 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.44
White (Caucasian) 7,341 89.22

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

Meaning of COCHRANE in historical publications

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 COCHRANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COCHRANE.

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 COCHRANE

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