The COCHRAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	58,233	514	0.022	216
United States (1880 census)	12,893	459	0.026	258
Change since 1880	+45340	-55	-0.004	-42
Other Countries
Australia	388	4090	0.002	24
United Kingdom	872	5867	0.002	19

Top States for COCHRAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	4,719	196	0.058	576
Texas	3,907	650	0.019	187
Ohio	3,688	307	0.032	325
California	3,344	985	0.010	99
Florida	3,257	594	0.020	204
Top States for COCHRAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,338	159	0.074	740
Alabama	2,584	263	0.058	581
Georgia	4,719	196	0.058	576
Mississippi	1,476	279	0.052	519
Oklahoma	1,399	295	0.041	405

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

Classification and Origin of COCHRAN

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 COCHRAN 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 COCHRAN 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 COCHRAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	827	1.42
Mixed Race	786	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	716	1.23
Asian/Pacific	210	0.36
White (Caucasian)	50,680	87.03
Black/African American	5,014	8.61

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

Similar names to COCHRAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COCHRAN.

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.