Coffin is used as a family name or surname in Old Norse and Welsh. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Coffin
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Old Norse and Welsh
Meaning: Name focused in the Somme, also present in the Cher. By metonymy refers manufacturer or dealer coffins, baskets or wicker baskets (Low Latin cophinum, borrowed from Greek). The craft is also present in the form Coffinier. Diminutives: Coffineau, Coffinet Coffinhal, Coffinot.

The name of one or more medical men. The name may be a corruption of Kolfinn, from Old Norse koilr, helmeted and the proper name Finn; or that it was originally Coffing, a patronymic, formed from cúf, strenuous. Some historians believe it to be same as Colvin or Colvinus, who held lands in chief under the Confessor. It may also be the same with Caffin, from French chauvi, Latin calvus, bald; whence Chauvin or Clavin. Coffin and Coffinhal, and Coffinieres or Couffin are found as French surnames, and there is a place called Couvin in Belgium, and Coffinswell is the name of a parish co. Devon.

In Welsh, Cyffin signifies a boundary, a hill or a limit, cefyn, the ridge of a hill. This last name has its origin from Co signifying high or exalted and fin, a head, boundary or extremity. This family settled early in the century, on the slaud of Nantucket, near Cape Cod, where the name is very common. A native of the island, Daniel Allen wrote the following lines over a hundred years ago, describing the characteristics of the different families resifin there.
"The hasty COFFIN, fractious, loud,
The silent Gardiner, plotting,
The Mitchells good, the Barkers proud,
The Macys eat the pudding;
The rays and Russels coopers are,
The knowing Folger lazy,
A learned Coleman very rare,
And scarce an honest Hussey."

How popular is Coffin?

Coffin is common in United States.

Coffin is ranked 32105 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Coffin bearers increased by 1.576439 per cent in 2010 US census to 8312 since 2000, the surname slipped by 289 spots and ranked at 4274. The last name was found in around 28 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.34 92.78
Black 2.73 2.82
Hispanic or Latino 2.25 1.33
Others 1.5 1.1
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.18 0.98
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1 0.99
Coffin is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while American Samoa is ahead in terms of density. Around 15597 people have been found who wears Coffin as their family name. Coffin is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
10,542 China4
67,494 South Africa3
2,151 Fiji2
139,444 Brazil2
23,344 Austria2
1,500,361 India2
65,594 Belgium2
26,532 Chile2
810,193 Indonesia1
37,779 Serbia1
7,191 Afghanistan1
30,360 Thailand1
7,292 Vietnam1
83,428 United Arab Emirates1
14,644 Tunisia1
746 Dominica1
2,374 Bermuda1
31,207 Ireland1
153,416 Italy1
3,071 Jersey1
537 Liechtenstein1
10,190 Bahrain1
118,015 Netherlands1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
8,268 Mauritius1
77,122 Sweden1
4,249 Cambodia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,780 Scotland46
228 American Samoa30
36,547 Switzerland27
94,038 Spain11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
1,560 Nicaragua98
5,257 Wales68
Countries with hundreds of Coffin:
8,318 England801
13,215 Mexico314
13,159 Australia208
4,479 New Zealand170
Countries with thousands of Coffin:
2,697 Canada1,814
4,818 France1,714
Countries with ten thousands of Coffin:
3,909 United States10,257
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

John Coffin from Ireland aboard the Java from Liverpool on April 27, 1846 during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 19 years old when he arrived in USA. Ellen Coffin (20), Mary Coffin (22) Maid, Workwoman Mary Coffin, 25 years old Mrs Coffin, Nancy Coffin, Mary Coffin, aged 18, Workman Thomas Coffin, Mary Coffin, Mary Coffin, aged 20, and 32 other Coffin around 85.71% of whom were workman migrated to US.

Comments

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Lenard Hutcheson
 Coffin is a name that refers cart, merchant nickname and trash baskets manufacturer.

Coffin Namesakes

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  • Tris Coffin, Film actor
  • Anne-Marie Coffinet, Actress
  • Pierre Coffin, Animator
  • C. Hayden Coffin, Actor
  • Jeff Coffin, Saxophonist
  • Berton Coffin, Author

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