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Coates Name Meaning
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.Scottish:
variant of Coutts.Americanized spelling of German and
Jewish Kotz or German Koths, from a variant of the
medieval personal name Godo (see Gottfried).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Coates Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coates families
 130 - 257  44 - 129 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Coates families
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1,773 - 3,544 592 - 1,772 |
1 - 591 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coates families
|
45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Coates Family Origin
Coates Immigration Information
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Coates Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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