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The COTHERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,985 13943 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 96 32217 0 2
Change since 1880 +1889 +18274 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COTHERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 265 1649 0.009 93
Tennessee 197 3933 0.003 35
Florida 194 10142 0.001 12
Louisiana 188 3246 0.004 42
Georgia 166 5072 0.002 20
Top States for COTHERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 265 1649 0.009 93
Louisiana 188 3246 0.004 42
Arkansas 98 3549 0.004 37
Tennessee 197 3933 0.003 35
Georgia 166 5072 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of COTHERN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COTHERN surname.

Ethnic distribution of COTHERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 37 1.86
Mixed Race 27 1.36
White (Hispanic) 25 1.26
White (Caucasian) 1,889 95.16
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

COTHERN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of COTHERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to COTHERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COTHERN.

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 COTHERN

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