| Frequency Comparisons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Rank | Frequency % | Per million people | |
| United States | ||||
| United States (Current snapshot) | 298 | 62775 | 0 | 1 |
| United States (1880 census) | 13 | 83311 | 0 | 0 |
| Change since 1880 | +285 | +20536 | +N/A | +N/A |
| Other Countries | ||||
| Australia | 13 | 74095 | 0 | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 27778 | 0 | 1 |
| Top States for KOE by Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Total | Rank in State | Frequency % | Per million people |
| California | 63 | 35955 | 0.000 | 2 |
| Illinois | 36 | 36895 | 0.000 | 3 |
| Washington | 25 | 27649 | 0.000 | 4 |
| New York | 24 | 71553 | 0.000 | 1 |
| Missouri | 16 | 34464 | 0.000 | 3 |
| Top States for KOE by Frequency | ||||
| State | Total | Rank in State | Frequency % | Per million people |
| Washington | 25 | 27649 | 0.000 | 4 |
| Illinois | 36 | 36895 | 0.000 | 3 |
| Missouri | 16 | 34464 | 0.000 | 3 |
| Connecticut | 7 | 60826 | 0.000 | 2 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 60288 | 0.000 | 2 |
'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!
For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!
For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.
It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.
Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KOE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KOE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KOE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KOE by picking someone at random in Washington than anywhere else.
Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KOE surname.
| Classification | Total | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Asian/Pacific | 142 | 47.65 |
| White (Caucasian) | 133 | 44.63 |
| Mixed Race | 11 | 3.69 |
| Black/African American | 7 | 2.35 |
| White (Hispanic) | 5 | 1.68 |
| Native American/Alaskan | None reported | 0 |
Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KOE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.
KOE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?
KOE. This surname may be the 0-Sax., North Frisian, and Danish ko, a cow. Mr. Ferguson, after alluding to surnames derived from the bear, the wolf, the boar, the horse, and the dog, and giviug a rationale of their origin, says : " But the cow — the innocent and ungainly cow — what is there in her usefid and liomely life that could inspire seutiments of reverence in a fierce and warlike people? The honour which was paid to her was from a more ancient and a more deeply-seated source. From the time when Israel, tainted v'ith Egyptiou superstition, set up a golden calf, and said, ' These be thy gods which brought thee out of the land of Egjt '— and from who can tell how many ages before that time, the cow as the type of the teeming mother earth, has been an object of human idolatry. In tlie Northern system of mythology she is not, like the bear, the wof,"or the boar, sacred to any particular divinity, but appears — in what seems to be a fragment of a more ancient myth — as mysteriously connected with the first cause and origin of all things. Grimm has remarked (Dciitsch Myth. p. 631), that the Sanscrit and Persian words for a cow correspond with a word signifying the earth. Aud he further observes upon the connection between Rinda, a name for the earth in Northern mythology, and the Germ, rind, an ox. I am unable, in the absence of proof derived from corresponding ancient names, to say whether any of our names deri\-ed from the cow are to be referred to this remote origin."
Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOE.
This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.
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