The COOL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,028	6254	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	1,268	4462	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+3760	-1792	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	60	22048	0	4
United Kingdom	113	22761	0	2

Top States for COOL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	557	3021	0.005	49
Pennsylvania	420	4345	0.003	34
Michigan	354	4052	0.004	36
California	263	11616	0.001	8
New York	258	8904	0.001	14
Top States for COOL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	224	1399	0.012	124
Nebraska	122	2164	0.007	71
Delaware	42	3887	0.005	54
Ohio	557	3021	0.005	49
Wyoming	22	3625	0.004	45

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COOL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COOL 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 COOL 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 COOL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	161	3.2
White (Hispanic)	68	1.35
Mixed Race	52	1.03
Asian/Pacific	27	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.32
White (Caucasian)	4,704	93.56

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

Similar names to COOL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COOL.

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.