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

Kogut, 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 Kogut surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Kogut in America

Kogut is the 17572nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Kogut surname appeared 1,600 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Kogut.

We can also compare 2010 data for Kogut 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 Kogut

The surname Kogut originates from Poland and Ukraine, emerging in the 16th century. It derives from the Polish and Ukrainian word "kogut," meaning "rooster" or "cock." This surname likely originated as a nickname or an occupational name for someone who raised or traded in roosters or poultry.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the Kogut surname can be found in the Metryka Koronna, a collection of records from the Crown Chancery of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, dating back to the late 15th century. In these records, the name is spelled as "Koguth" and "Kogut."

The Kogut surname also appeared in the Revishin Kazki, a census and tax record of the Cossack population in the Hetmanate (modern-day Ukraine), conducted in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This suggests that the name was well-established in both Poland and Ukraine during this period.

A notable early bearer of the Kogut surname was Jan Kogut (c. 1540-1610), a Polish scholar and translator who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He is known for his translations of works by Cicero and other classical authors into Polish.

Another historical figure with the Kogut surname was Ivan Kogut (1770-1835), a Ukrainian Cossack leader and military commander who fought against the Russian Empire in the early 19th century.

In the 19th century, the Kogut surname can be found in various records from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which ruled over parts of modern-day Poland and Ukraine at the time. For example, Jan Kogut (1825-1892) was a Polish-Austrian painter and illustrator born in Lviv, which was then part of the Austrian Empire.

Other notable individuals with the Kogut surname include Mykola Kogut (1892-1937), a Ukrainian writer and literary critic who was executed during the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union, and Józef Kogut (1899-1976), a Polish politician and member of the Polish Underground State during World War II.

The Kogut surname has also been found in various place names and older spellings of place names in Poland and Ukraine, such as the village of Kohuty in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine and the Polish village of Kogutów in the Lublin Voivodeship.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Kogut

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

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 Kogut 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 Kogut 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 Kogut was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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