The Coffin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,312 people carried this name — #4,274 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 35,500 people counted. That is up 2% from 8,183 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 790 people named Coffin.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 49 départements, most often Somme.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Coffin in American newspapers,
1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 734,297 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Coffin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Amos Coffin d. 1884 · politician -
Tristram Coffin 1605–1681 · tavernman -
Kathryne Coffin d. 1969 · writer
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Raymond Coffin d. 2022 · warden
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Leonora Gertrude Coffin d. 1957
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Zaccheus Coffin d. 1797
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Coffin.
- Codina 439 · U.S. census
- Coelho 5,593 · U.S. census
- Coen 4,400 · U.S. census
- Coene 182 · U.S. census
- Coenen 1,447 · U.S. census
- Coffard 127 · U.S. census
- Coffy 359 · U.S. census
- Cogan 3,631 · U.S. census
- Cogen 215 · U.S. census
- Cogo 134 · U.S. census
- Cohan 2,480 · U.S. census
- Cohen 89,091 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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