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OTHER VARIANTS OF THE NAME & WORLDWIDE SPREAD OF THE NAME

 

The following variations have been found during my researches. It is not known exactly if all of these eventually developed into Covington or went to form other names, but at least at some stage the name may have looked like this:

 

COBINSHAW, COBBINSHAW, COFFENDEN, COFTON, COLBAIN, COLBAN, COLBANSTONE, COLBANUS, COLBAYNE, COLBAYNESTOUN, COLBEYNSTON, COLINTON, COLUMBAN, COVENTON, COVEING, COVI, COVING, COVINGHAM, COVINGTOUN, COVINTON, COVUS, CUFA, CUFAS, CUVINGTON, COVEFENTON, COVERNTON, KOLBEINN

 

In more recent times the most common mis-spelling of the name is Coventon. The most likely explanation for this is that many 18th & 19th century parents were illiterate, therefore unable to spell even their own name. When registering the birth of a child, they would have to rely on the registrar, who was usually one of the more educated locals, to spell the name for them. As many Covingtons of this era were from rural areas, their accents obviously led the registrar to believe the spelling was Coventon or Covernton. My own great grandfather, Charles James, was born as a Coventon, but eventually married as a Covington. There are examples of many others in the late 19th century, who changed the spelling of their name back to Covington as levels of literacy improved.

 

For much more information on the evolution of the Covington name please visit "Where are we from?".

 

During the 21st Century there were 416 Coventons registered as being born in England or Wales. Covernton, which is also a known derivative, saw 164 births all over the world during the same period and would seem to be the elite side of the family, with personal references to be found in copies of Who's Who.

 

The most popular hyphenated name is Covington-Cross with 38 born in the last century, with the first materializing in 1918, possibly as an offspring of Leslie Macartney Covington and Ethel M. Cross who married in that year. There have been a few other double-barrelled Covingtons, that I have so far found: Covington-Aune (by marriage), Covington-Baling, Covington-Barnes, Covington-Cox, Covington-Covell, Covington-Davies, Covington-Denton (by marriage), Covington-Evenden, Covington-Hole, Covington-Horwood, Covington-Jones, Covington-Miles, Covington-Satterly, Covington-Schatz (by marriage), Covington-Stott, Covington-Wailes, Covington-Wells, and Covington-Young, plus an Epstein-Covington & a Rooke-Covington.

 

The following data is available via Forebears website:

 

SPREAD OF COVINGTON SURNAME BY COUNTRY (2014)

Place

Incidence

Frequency

United States

36,170

1:10,022

England

708

1:78,698

Australia

220

1:122,708

Canada

97

1:379,852

Italy

44

1:1,389,925

Wales

27

1:114,612

Nigeria

14

1:12,652,010

Germany

13

1:6,192,729

Jamaica

11

1:260,904

Philippines

10

1:10,123,657

South Africa

9

1:6,019,744

Ecuador

9

1:1,767,316

Scotland

8

1:669,227

France

7

1:9,487,900

Hong Kong

5

1:1,467,097

Japan

5

1:25,568,859

Malawi

4

1:4,279,777

Mexico

4

1:31,031,551

Qatar

4

1:597,748

Dominican Republic

4

1:2,608,308

Bangladesh

4

1:39,839,194

Taiwan

3

1:7,800,250

Panama

3

1:1,304,086

Israel

2

1:4,278,821

India

2

1:383,532,462

Northern Ireland

2

1:922,518

China

2

1:683,636,926

Austria

2

1:4,257,718

Kuwait

1

1:3,800,694

Singapore

1

1:5,507,733

Slovenia

1

1:2,487,675

Spain

1

1:46,752,038

Trinidad and Tobago

1

1:1,363,975

Sweden

1

1:9,846,758

Puerto Rico

1

1:3,550,139

Peru

1

1:31,784,125

Papua New Guinea

1

1:8,153,717

Norway

1

1:5,142,288

New Zealand

1

1:4,528,323

Guyana

1

1:762,221

Ghana

1

1:27,000,217

Georgia

1

1:3,745,548

Estonia

1

1:1,321,804

Bahrain

1

1:1,348,608

Bahamas

1

1:391,751

Argentina

1

1:42,743,413

Antigua and Barbuda

1

1:99,171

Afghanistan

1

1:12,262,551

 

SPREAD IN ENGLAND (2014)

Place

Incidence

Frequency

Greater London

200

1:48,622

Essex

42

1:42,471

Kent

42

1:42,990

Hertfordshire

39

1:30,018

West Midlands

37

1:76,395

Cambridgeshire

28

1:29,927

Lincolnshire

26

1:40,663

Hampshire

24

1:75,857

Buckinghamshire

21

1:37,757

Berkshire

20

1:44,224

Somerset

20

1:50,912

Surrey

19

1:61,685

Suffolk

17

1:43,479

Bedfordshire

16

1:41,016

Northamptonshire

16

1:48,495

Wiltshire

16

1:26,776

Warwickshire

13

1:42,760

Staffordshire

12

1:92,299

Dorset

11

1:69,572

Devon

10

1:116,650

East Sussex

10

1:83,044

West Yorkshire

9

1:251,559

Nottinghamshire

8

1:140,627

Leicestershire

7

1:146,097

Lancashire

6

1:246,089

Norfolk

6

1:146,798

Worcestershire

5

1:115,650

City of Bristol

5

1:89,703

Rutland

4

1:9,488

East Riding of Yorkshire

4

1:148,960

Tyne and Wear

4

1:279,787

Cheshire

2

1:514,850

Derbyshire

2

1:518,100

Cornwall

1

1:550,046

Gloucestershire

1

1:892,363

Oxfordshire

1

1:672,460

Greater Manchester

1

1:2,850,234

North Yorkshire

1

1:1,076,298

South Yorkshire

1

1:1,365,215

West Sussex

1

1:842,250

 

SPREAD IN THE U.S.A. (2014)

Place

Incidence

Frequency

North Carolina

4,401

1:2,425

Texas

3,378

1:9,321

Georgia

2,510

1:4,662

California

2,180

1:19,121

Tennessee

1,930

1:3,778

Maryland

1,828

1:5,510

Virginia

1,642

1:5,667

South Carolina

1,616

1:3,199

Florida

1,392

1:15,205

New York

1,053

1:22,362

Missouri

1,051

1:9,926

Mississippi

1,006

1:3,128

Alabama

955

1:5,608

Illinois

909

1:16,382

Nevada

883

1:6,339

Louisiana

797

1:6,285

Michigan

788

1:14,273

Kentucky

753

1:6,051

Pennsylvania

680

1:21,037

Arkansas

625

1:4,922

Utah

567

1:5,743

Indiana

536

1:12,630

Oklahoma

529

1:8,081

New Jersey

488

1:18,767

Washington

466

1:17,241

Ohio

462

1:26,700

Colorado

368

1:17,275

Arizona

363

1:19,059

District of Columbia

323

1:5,954

Iowa

246

1:13,570

Oregon

175

1:24,507

Wisconsin

154

1:41,016

Minnesota

131

1:48,955

Kansas

122

1:24,472

Connecticut

120

1:30,694

Idaho

93

1:18,079

Massachusetts

83

1:92,303

Delaware

76

1:12,675

New Mexico

76

1:28,506

Hawaii

74

1:20,827

West Virginia

74

1:26,340

Nebraska

67

1:30,407

Alaska

53

1:14,165

Wyoming

41

1:14,671

Rhode Island

33

1:32,798

Montana

32

1:32,565

Maine

12

1:113,695

North Dakota

12

1:62,311

New Hampshire

8

1:171,027

Vermont

5

1:129,057

South Dakota

4

1:229,176

 

How common is the last name Covington?

The surname is the 14,957th most widely held surname throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 194,775 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 97 percent of Covington are found; 97 percent are found in North America and 97 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 603,034th most frequently held first name on earth, held by 210 people.

 

The last name is most commonly used in The United States, where it is carried by 36,170 people, or 1 in 10,022. In The U.S. Covington is primarily concentrated in: North Carolina, where 12 percent reside, Texas, where 9 percent reside and Georgia, where 7 percent reside. Aside from The United States it exists in 47 countries. It also occurs in England, where 2 percent reside and Australia, where 1 percent reside.

 

Covington Family Population Trend

The frequency of Covington has changed over time. In The U.S. the number of people who held the Covington surname expanded 701 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 185 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it expanded 800 percent between 1881 and 2014.

 

Covington Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Covington surname is principally Anglican (50%) in Ireland.

 

In The United States those bearing the Covington surname are 9.56% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 56.33% registered to vote for the political party.

 

The amount Covington earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 8.06% less than the national average, earning $39,670 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.51% more than the national average, earning $50,433 CAD per year.

 

COVENTON

 

Although initially considered to be a spelling error subsequently corrected by many Covingtons later in life, Coventon remains in use today. The following info is provided by the Forebears  website,

Place

Incidence

Frequency

United States

136

1:2,665,518

England

45

1:1,238,179

Australia

42

1:642,755

Canada

1

1:36,845,673

New Zealand

1

1:4,528,323

 

How common is the last name Coventon?

The last name Coventon is the 1,087,180th most frequently held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 32,387,265 people. The last name Coventon is mostly found in The Americas, where 61 percent of Coventon are found; 61 percent are found in North America and 61 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname Coventon is most commonly used in The U.S., where it is borne by 136 people, or 1 in 2,665,518. In The U.S.A., Coventon is most common in: Oklahoma, where 31 percent are found, California, where 20 percent are found and Texas, where 18 percent are found. Aside from The United States it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in England, where 20 percent are found and Australia, where 19 percent are found.

Coventon Family Population Trend

The occurrence of Coventon has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Coventon surname expanded 316 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it decreased 13 percent between 1881 and 2014.


Coventon Last Name Statistics demography

In the United States those holding the Coventon last name are 17.52% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 64.29% registered to vote for the political party.

Coventons earn significantly more than the average income. In United States they earn 33.23% more than the national average, earning $57,487 USD per year.

 

 

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