Last Name COKER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Coker, two parishes in county Somerset.

Origin	English, Native American, Irish, Belgian

Rank	1,447 (2000 US census)	1,331 (1990 US census)

Count	22,636 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

84.75%, or 19184 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.77%, or 2438 total occurrences, as black,
0.27%, or 61 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.15%, or 260 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.57%, or 355 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.49%, or 337 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

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Surnames that make great first names

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