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The COY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,561 2142 0.006 58
United States (1880 census) 3,279 1871 0.007 66
Change since 1880 +12282 -271 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 289 5374 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,258 4330 0.003 27
Top States for COY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,698 1067 0.015 150
Texas 1,213 2597 0.006 58
Indiana 1,201 819 0.020 198
California 1,126 3648 0.003 33
Pennsylvania 767 2722 0.006 62
Top States for COY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 1,201 819 0.020 198
Kentucky 691 1150 0.017 171
Wyoming 82 938 0.017 166
Ohio 1,698 1067 0.015 150
Oklahoma 386 1684 0.011 112

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

Classification and Origin of COY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 948 6.09
Mixed Race 232 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 96 0.62
Asian/Pacific 73 0.47
White (Caucasian) 13,032 83.75
Black/African American 1,180 7.58

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

Meaning of COY in historical publications

COY. M'Coy, sans I\Iac.

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 COY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COY.

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 COY

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