The COFFIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,183	3985	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	4,928	1258	0.01	99
Change since 1880	+3255	-2727	-0.007	-69
Other Countries
Australia	111	13000	0.001	7
United Kingdom	701	6909	0.002	15

Top States for COFFIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	848	255	0.067	665
California	652	4468	0.002	19
Massachusetts	613	1486	0.010	97
New York	580	3339	0.003	31
Florida	491	4142	0.003	31
Top States for COFFIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	848	255	0.067	665
Vermont	73	1497	0.012	120
New Hampshire	147	1338	0.012	119
Massachusetts	613	1486	0.010	97
Delaware	75	1876	0.010	96

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

Classification and Origin of COFFIN

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 COFFIN 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 COFFIN 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 COFFIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	231	2.82
White (Hispanic)	109	1.33
Mixed Race	90	1.1
Asian/Pacific	81	0.99
Native American/Alaskan	80	0.98
White (Caucasian)	7,592	92.78

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

Meaning of COFFIN in historical publications

(origin: Local) Cyffin, in Welsh, signifies a boundary, a limit, a hill; cefyn, the ridge of a hill. This name has its origin from Co, high, exalted, and fin, a head, extremity, boundary. This family settled early in this country, on the sland of Nantucket, near Cape Cod, where the name is very common. The following humorous lines, descriptive of the characteristics of the different families residing on that island, were written by one Daniel Allen, a native of the island, more than a hundred years ago: "The hasty Coffin, fractious, loud, The silent Gardiner, plotting, The Mitchells good, the Barkers proud, The Macys eat the pudding; The Rays and Russels coopers are, The knowing Folger lazy, A learned Coleman very rare, And scarce an honest Hussey."

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

COFFIN. Tills f\imlly possessed Alwington manor, co. De'on, temp. William Conq.. and they still reside at Portledge in that manor. B.L.G. Colvin or Colvinus

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 COFFIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COFFIN.

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.