as a Last Name
- 21,625
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Coates
Meaning & Origins
English: status name for a cottager (see Cotter 2), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.
| 1,431st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 21,625
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Coates per capita
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