as a Last Name
- 7,819
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Coffin
Meaning & Origins
English and French: metonymic occupational name for a basket maker, from Old French cof(f)in ‘basket’ (Late Latin cophinus, Greek kophinos). The modern English word coffin is a specialized development of this term, not attested until the 16th century.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,819
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- America Samoa
- has the most people named Coffin per capita
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