Coffen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kəfən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Coffen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • LBLebanon
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Coffen,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Coffen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020219#90,519
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000209#83,618
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010183#98,982
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—13—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Coffen mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative form of coffin (“exploratory trench; deep ditch”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Coffen?
A machine transcription gives /kəfən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Coffen have the most bearers?
Coffen is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Coffen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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