Coyne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: either 'person who makes coins' or a nickname for a miser; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Cuain / Ó Cadhain, or an Irish variant of Quinn
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔjn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coyne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
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
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, 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)
either 'person who makes coins' or a nickname for a miser; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Cuain / Ó Cadhain, or an Irish variant of Quinn
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coyne 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 | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Coyne | 9 |
| US United States | — | 11,525 | 1 in 29K | 12K | Coyne | 382 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Coyne | 181 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Coyne | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Coyne | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Coyne | 134 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Coyne | 5 |
| IE Ireland | #461 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Coyne | 98 |
| JM Jamaica | #957 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Coyne | 1 |
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)
Coyne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from ME coyn, coigne, AFr coigne, Fr coin 'a die for stamping money', 'a piece of money'; metonymic occupational name for a coiner/minter; first attested Allan Coigne 13th Ronton (St)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Obsolete spelling of coin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of coyn (“coin, quoin”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thelma Coyne Longb. 1918AUAustralian tennis player (1918–2015)
- Jeanne Coyneb. 1923USAmerican actress (1923-1973)
- William J. Coyneb. 1936USAmerican politician (1936–2013)
- Jerry Coyneb. 1949USAmerican biologist
- Jonny Coyneb. 1953GBEnglish actor
- Tom Coyneb. 1954USAmerican mastering engineer (1954–2017)
- Susan Coyneb. 1958CACanadian actress and writer
- Wayne Coyneb. 1961USAmerican musician; lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips
- Tommy Coyneb. 1962IEIrish footballer
- Kendall Coyneb. 1992USAmerican ice hockey player
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,183 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Coyne?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔjn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Coyne mean, and where does it come from?
- either 'person who makes coins' or a nickname for a miser; also from Irish Gaelic Ó Cuain / Ó Cadhain, or an Irish variant of Quinn Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Coyne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Coyne in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coyne.
- How common is the name Coyne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,525 people named Coyne in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Coyne compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Coyne is the 461st most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coyneThe 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, “Coyne” — the 461st most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.