The COATS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,265	2185	0.006	57
United States (1880 census)	6,343	959	0.013	127
Change since 1880	+8922	-1226	-0.007	-70
Other Countries
Australia	269	5749	0.002	16
United Kingdom	792	6319	0.002	17

Top States for COATS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,814	1412	0.009	87
California	1,280	2545	0.004	38
North Carolina	968	1321	0.012	120
Florida	732	2902	0.005	46
Alabama	722	1068	0.016	162
Top States for COATS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	605	776	0.018	175
Mississippi	493	939	0.017	173
Alabama	722	1068	0.016	162
Arkansas	352	1041	0.013	132
North Carolina	968	1321	0.012	120

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

Classification and Origin of COATS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	316	2.07
Mixed Race	246	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	171	1.12
Asian/Pacific	60	0.39
White (Caucasian)	11,520	75.47
Black/African American	2,951	19.33

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

Similar names to COATS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COATS.

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.