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The COOGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,718 10773 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 804 6519 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +1914 -4254 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 305 5125 0.002 19
United Kingdom 843 6024 0.002 18
Top States for COOGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 413 4536 0.002 22
Massachusetts 251 3349 0.004 40
California 212 11615 0.001 6
Florida 206 8838 0.001 13
New Jersey 169 5653 0.002 20
Top States for COOGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 85 1832 0.008 81
Massachusetts 251 3349 0.004 40
Vermont 19 4606 0.003 31
Connecticut 82 5399 0.002 24
New York 413 4536 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of COOGAN

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 COOGAN 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 COOGAN 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 COOGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 48 1.77
Mixed Race 28 1.03
Asian/Pacific 20 0.74
White (Caucasian) 2,609 95.99
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COOGAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COOGAN.

Similar names to COOGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COOGAN.

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 COOGAN

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