Last Name COCHRAN

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Meaning	Local: From the barony of Cochran in Renfrewshire. The family are descended from Walden de Cochran, temp. Alexander III. Local: 'Cocrinn,' Gaelic, a point or promontory in open sight; from 'Coc,' manifest, plain, and 'rinn,' a cape or promontory.

Origin	Scottish, Native American, Irish, Falkland

Rank	514 (2000 US census)	507 (1990 US census)

Count	58,233 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

87.03%, or 50680 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
8.61%, or 5014 total occurrences, as black,
0.36%, or 210 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.23%, or 716 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.35%, or 786 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.42%, or 827 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte