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The COAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,179 20817 0 4
United States (1880 census) 298 14337 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +881 -6480 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 1,080 1528 0.007 66
United Kingdom 678 7085 0.001 15
Top States for COAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 141 16197 0.000 4
Ohio 95 12832 0.001 8
Illinois 94 13279 0.001 8
Florida 91 17594 0.001 6
New York 70 24499 0.000 4
Top States for COAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 9 10773 0.001 14
South Dakota 10 11377 0.001 13
North Dakota 8 11795 0.001 12
Kansas 29 10096 0.001 11
South Carolina 36 9039 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 COAD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COAD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COAD in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COAD by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COAD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: Anglo-Saxon

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 135 11.45
White (Hispanic) 15 1.27
Mixed Race 11 0.93
White (Caucasian) 1,006 85.33
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COAD in historical publications

COAD. COADE. A wood or forest. A Breton name, from the Celtic coit, sylva, nemus.

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 COAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COAD.

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 COAD

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