The COFFEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	35,442	894	0.013	131
United States (1880 census)	5,563	1091	0.011	111
Change since 1880	+29879	+197	+0.002	+20
Other Countries
Australia	1,563	1043	0.01	96
United Kingdom	3,112	2002	0.007	68

Top States for COFFEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,605	440	0.032	324
Kentucky	2,288	235	0.057	566
Texas	2,224	1158	0.011	107
Tennessee	1,996	431	0.035	351
California	1,942	1714	0.006	57
Top States for COFFEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	2,288	235	0.057	566
Tennessee	1,996	431	0.035	351
North Carolina	2,605	440	0.032	324
Oklahoma	898	507	0.026	260
Virginia	1,806	469	0.026	255

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

Classification and Origin of COFFEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	482	1.36
Mixed Race	464	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	220	0.62
Asian/Pacific	138	0.39
White (Caucasian)	31,884	89.96
Black/African American	2,258	6.37

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

Similar names to COFFEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COFFEY.

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.