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 (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Coyne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 11,525 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Coyne is also written 코인 in Korean (Hangul).
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Coyne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
11,525 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Coyne in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(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
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Coyne is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 11,525 | 1 in 29K | 12K | Coyne | 382 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Coyne | 181 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Coyne | 134 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Coyne | 102 |
| IE Ireland | #461 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Coyne | 98 |
| JM Jamaica | #957 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Coyne | 1 |
11,525 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. 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)- Jerry Coyneb. 1949USAmerican biologist
- Jonny Coyneb. 1953GBEnglish actor
- Wayne Coyneb. 1961USAmerican musician; lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Coyne?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Coyne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coyne. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Ireland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Coyne?
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Query this name via API
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” — ranked 2890th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.