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The COONS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,374 3899 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 3,352 1826 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +5022 -2073 -0.004 -36
Other Countries
Australia 1 283156 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31958 0 0
Top States for COONS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,203 1534 0.006 63
California 739 4068 0.002 22
Indiana 457 1699 0.008 75
Florida 410 4958 0.003 26
Texas 381 5393 0.002 18
Top States for COONS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 457 1699 0.008 75
Kansas 194 1644 0.007 72
Vermont 43 2393 0.007 71
Wyoming 34 1856 0.007 69
New York 1,203 1534 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of COONS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COONS 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.

Ethnic distribution of COONS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 126 1.5
White (Hispanic) 124 1.48
Mixed Race 105 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 72 0.86
Asian/Pacific 51 0.61
White (Caucasian) 7,896 94.29

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

Meaning of COONS in historical publications

(origin: Dutch) Koen, bold, daring, audacious. Coon, Saxon, bold.

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


Similar names to COONS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COONS.

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 COONS

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