Coats is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Coats
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

Is form of Coat. See Cott - A common termination of local surnames, as in Walcott, Caldecott, Norcot, Northcote, Southcote, etc. It appears to be the Anglo-Saxon cóte. Professor Leo observes that, "if selë be the dwelling of the wealthy of landowners, cóte on the other hand indicates the abode of the poorer classe. Cote is the house of an indigent de pendent countryman, who, without any personal estate, holds a transferable tenement in fief. It was originally a house of mud, or of earth, with loam walls." The prefixed word some times indicates the owner's name, and is sometimes descriptive of the situation.

Coats is a form of the Coat. Of the wood or forest.

A variant of Coate. Descendant of one who occupied a cottage and tilled ten acres or less.

Variation of Coates. Descendant of one who occupied a cottage and tilled ten acres or less.

Descendant of one who occupied a cottage and tilled ten acres or less.

A variant form of Cotes. A manor in Staffordshire gave name to this family, who are "descended from Richard de Cotes, probably the son of Thomas de Cotes, living in 1167, when the Black Book of the Exchequer was compiled. About the reign of Henry VI the family removed to Woodcote in Shropshire, which has since continued their principal seat, though the more ancient manor of Cotes or 'Kotes,' on the banks of the Sow, has ever remained the property of this ancient house."

How popular is Coats?

Coats is common in United States, England, Australia, Scotland, Dominican Republic, Canada, New Zealand.

Coats is ranked 21872 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Coats bearers increased by 4.44 per cent in 2010 US census to 15943 since 2000, the surname slipped by 101 spots and ranked at 2286. The last name was found in around 5 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 73.19 75.47
Black 20.5 19.33
Hispanic or Latino 2.82 2.07
Others 2.09 1.61
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.93 1.12
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.47 0.39
Coats is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Montserrat is ahead in terms of density. Around 24869 people have been found who wears Coats as their family name. Coats is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with ten thousands of Coats:
2,083 United States22,036
Countries with hundreds of Coats:
8,304 England767
6,443 Australia517
1,738 Scotland401
1,835 Dominican Republic331
14,476 Canada262
4,394 New Zealand180
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
145,864 Thailand75
1,936 Suriname70
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
66,933 South Africa47
386,265 India24
10,911 Ireland15
13,576 Wales14
205,224 Germany14
197,164 Philippines13
329,557 Brazil11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
9,958 Northern Ireland9
88,902 Netherlands8
77,571 Switzerland6
939 Northern Mariana Islands6

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 26 years old sewer Eliza Coats who was residing in Ireland migrated to USA on September 22, 1849 by Reinzi put out from Belfast. Born at sea Theodocia Coats, Julia Coats (20) Immigrant, Robert Coats, aged 34, Rebeca Coats, Robert Coats, Sarah Coats, aged 9 months old, Immigrant John Coats, Immigrant Rachael Coats, and 26 other Coats around 36.36% of whom were servant while others worked as workman and farmer migrated to US from Belfast, Liverpool and Glasgow.

From Germany

Clara Coats hailed from Germany. 9 years old embarked for New York from Bremen on Wieland and arrived on December 10, 1857. Ida Coats (10), Undefined code Louis Coats, Paper maker Louis Coats, Louis-Oscar Coats (13) Undefined code, Paper maker Louis-Oscar Coats, Undefined code Maria Coats, 38 years old Maria Coats, Mina Coats, are other Coats that migrated to US.

Coats Namesakes

  • Robert H. Coats, was Canada's first Dominion Statistician
  • John Coats, theosophist
  • Stuart Coats, British politician and Member of Parliament for Wimbledon from 1916 to 1918 and then East Surrey
  • Janet Coats, is new media journalism director for the Patterson Foundation
  • James Coats, British skeleton racer
  • Michael Coats, former NASA astronaut, raised in Riverside
  • Robert R. Coats, American geologist
  • Dan Coats, American politician and former diplomat serving as the current Director of National Intelligence since 2017 under the Trump Administration
  • Buck Coats, former Major League Baseball outfielder
  • The Coats, a cappella singing group which was
  • Lucy Coats, English writer of picture books, poetry

Coats Namesakes

  • Robert H. Coats, was Canada's first Dominion Statistician
  • John Coats, theosophist
  • Stuart Coats, British politician and Member of Parliament for Wimbledon from 1916 to 1918 and then East Surrey
  • Janet Coats, is new media journalism director for the Patterson Foundation
  • James Coats, British skeleton racer
  • Michael Coats, former NASA astronaut, raised in Riverside
  • Robert R. Coats, American geologist
  • Dan Coats, American politician and former diplomat serving as the current Director of National Intelligence since 2017 under the Trump Administration
  • Buck Coats, former Major League Baseball outfielder
  • The Coats, a cappella singing group which was
  • Lucy Coats, English writer of picture books, poetry

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