Coin surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Coin surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 653 people carried this name — #34,618 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is down 6% from 692 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Coin surname

Borrowed from French Coin. It could also be a variant of the surname Coyne from Irish.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Coin» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 839 people named Coin.

15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 61 départements, most often Ardèche.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 15
Ardèche 88
Pas-de-Calais 86
Haute-Saône 79
Paris 63
Nord 47
Gard 40
Cher 36
Rhône 35

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 30 people named Coin live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Mendoza.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Mendoza 16
Buenos Aires Province 14

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Coin,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Robert Coin
    Robert Coin 1901–1988 · sculptor
  • Christophe Coin
    Christophe Coin 1958– · conductor
  • Vittorio Coin 1939–2017 · businessperson
  • Claude Coin 1948– · politician
  • Pascal Coin 1956– · politician
  • Dimitri Coin 1970– · politician

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Coin is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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