The Cool surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,958 people carried this name — #6,801 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 59,500 people counted. That is down 1% from 5,028 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 940 people named Cool live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 148 people named Cool.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Cool,
with a public archive behind them.
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Emma Johanna Henriette Cool 1837–1914 · art collector -
Wouter Cool 1848–1928 · writer -
Thomas Cool 1851–1904 · painter -
Tine Cool 1877–1944 · architect -
Catharina Cool 1530– · housewife
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Jacob Cool 1535–1591 · merchant
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cool.
- Contini 582 · U.S. census
- Contreras 130,164 · U.S. census
- Contri 173 · U.S. census
- Conty 193 · U.S. census
- Convers 116 · U.S. census
- Cook 302,589 · U.S. census
- Coolen 221 · U.S. census
- Cools 216 · U.S. census
- Cooper 280,791 · U.S. census
- Coopman 461 · U.S. census
- Cop 264 · U.S. census
- Cope 18,410 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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