Coughlin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Ó Cochláin, 'descendant of Cochlán', a nickname based on cochal 'hood'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɔɡɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coughlin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 23K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 413 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Irish Gaelic Ó Cochláin, 'descendant of Cochlán', a nickname based on cochal 'hood'.
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)
Coughlin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Coughlin | 8 |
| US United States | 14,434 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Coughlin | 413 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Coughlin | 132 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Coughlin | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Coughlin | 136 |
| IE Ireland | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Coughlin | 25 |
| IS Iceland | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Coughlin | 3 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Coughlin | 2 |
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. 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)
Coughlin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Charles Edward, US clergyman
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- John Coughlinb. 1860USAmerican political boss
- Charles Coughlinb. 1891CACanadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentator (1891–1979)
- Mae Coughlinb. 1897USwife of Al Capone (1897-1986)
- Tom Coughlinb. 1946USAmerican football player and coach
- Con Coughlinb. 1955GBBritish journalist and author (born 1955)
- Craig Coughlinb. 1958USAmerican politician
- Russell Coughlinb. 1960GBWelsh footballer (1960-2016)
- Jack Coughlinb. 1966USUnited States Marine
- Natalie Coughlinb. 1982USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
- John Coughlinb. 1985USAmerican pair skater (1985–2019)
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,510 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,534 |
| 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 Coughlin mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Ó Cochláin, 'descendant of Cochlán', a nickname based on cochal 'hood'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Coughlin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɔɡɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Coughlin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Coughlin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coughlin.
- How common is the name Coughlin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,434 people named Coughlin in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coughlinThe 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, “Coughlin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.