Find out how popular the last name Coultas is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Coultas.

Coultas, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Coultas surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Coultas in America

Coultas is the 26212th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Coultas surname appeared 933 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Coultas.

We can also compare 2010 data for Coultas to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Coultas

The surname Coultas is of English origin and dates back to the late medieval period. It is believed to have derived from an old Anglo-Saxon place name, with the most likely source being the village of Coultas in Yorkshire. This place name itself is thought to come from the Old English words "col" meaning charcoal and "tun" meaning settlement or farmstead, suggesting the name may have referred to an area where charcoal burning took place.

One of the earliest recorded mentions of the Coultas surname appears in the Subsidy Rolls of Yorkshire from 1297, where a Geoffrey de Coultas is listed. The surname also appears in various other historical records from the 13th to 15th centuries, with spellings such as Coltasse, Coltays, and Coultasse.

In the 16th century, the surname is found in the Parish Registers of Ripon, Yorkshire, where a John Coultas was recorded in 1592. Around the same time, a William Coultas was noted in the Registers of St. Michael's Church, Alnwick, Northumberland, in 1593.

Notable bearers of the Coultas surname include John Coultas (1608-1698), an English Presbyterian minister and controversialist, and Sir John Coultas (1766-1849), a British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

Other historical figures with this surname include William Coultas (1751-1823), an English architect who designed several notable buildings in Yorkshire, and Thomas Coultas (1793-1879), a British botanist and author of several works on the flora of Yorkshire.

A more recent example is Henry Coultas (1888-1965), a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Spennymoor from 1945 to 1950.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Coultas

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Coultas.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Coultas was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Coultas has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Coultas was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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