Coan family name history and map
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Coan in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 62 people named Coan in Ireland; roughly one in every 71,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 31 men and 31 women.
Counties with Coan in Ireland
Mayo was Coan country: 30.6% of them (19 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Galway (15), Sligo (13), Roscommon (8) and Dublin (6).
Coan average age in 1911
The average Coan in 1911 was 35.8 years old, 38.1 for men and 33.4 for women; noticeably older than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Coan literacy in 1911
Of the Coans whose literacy was recorded, 68.4% could both read and write, 8.8% could read but not write, and 22.8% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 72.4% reading and writing against 64.3% of women. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Coan common first names
The most common male names were John (8), Michael, Thomas, James and Patrick; the same five names that topped the list nationally. For women it was Catherine (5), followed by Mary, Bridget, Anne and Delia.
Coan occupations in 1911
The most common occupation among Coans was farmer, 30.6% of them (19 people). Next came scholar / student (11.3%), domestic servant (6.5%), farm labourer (6.5%) and teacher (4.8%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 38.7% of all Coans, followed by domestic service, professional and general labourers.
What religion is Coan?
Coans were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, 91.9% of them.
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Coan statistics (1911)
Number: 62
Rank: 5,082
Average Age: 36
Coan in the USA (2020)
Number: 2,758
Rank: 11,016
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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