Coates Family History
- 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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,608,367 Historical Documents with Coates on Ancestry
- 501,105 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 332,442 Census and Voter Lists
- 42,996 Military Records
- 32,692 Immigration Records
- 699,132 Member Trees
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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
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45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 191
- Union
- 435
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