Coghill
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘Person from Cogill’, Yorkshire; (ii) perhaps a different form of Cowgill; (iii) perhaps an anglicization of Danish Kogel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑɡˌhɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coghill is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 99K
- USUnited States1 in 230K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,447 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘Person from Cogill’, Yorkshire; (ii) perhaps a different form of Cowgill; (iii) perhaps an anglicization of Danish Kogel.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coghill counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,447 | 1 in 230K | 1.5K | Coghill | 244 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Coghill | 106 |
| AU Australia | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Coghill | 89 |
| CA Canada | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Coghill | 83 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Coghill | 25 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Coghill | 1 |
1,447 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Coghill is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, perhaps from Cogill in Aysgarth, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Ralph de Coghull 1286 AssCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, The name of a Yorkshire family which came to Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century and has since been identified mainly with Co. Kilkenny. Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nevill Coghillb. 1852IEIrish military officer (1852–1879); recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Egerton Coghillb. 1853IEIrish artist (1851–1921)
- Nevill Coghillb. 1899IEEnglish literary scholar (1899–1980)
- Rhoda Coghillb. 1903IEIrish composer (1903-2000)
- Jack Coghillb. 1925USAmerican politician (1925–2019)
- Joy Coghillb. 1926CACanadian actress (1926–2017)
- Ken Coghillb. 1944AUAustralian politician
- Nikki Coghillb. 1964AUAustralian actress
- Jon Coghillb. 1971AUAustralian musician
- Chris Coghillb. 1975GBBritish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,694 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Coghill mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘Person from Cogill’, Yorkshire; (ii) perhaps a different form of Cowgill; (iii) perhaps an anglicization of Danish Kogel. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Coghill?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɡˌhɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Coghill have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Coghill, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coghill.
- How common is the name Coghill?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,447 people named Coghill in 2010, about 1 in 230 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coghillThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Coghill”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.