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The COSLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 275 67113 0 1
United States (1880 census) 159 22799 0 3
Change since 1880 +116 -44314 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COSLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 70 32004 0.000 2
Michigan 31 38831 0.000 3
Illinois 23 54902 0.000 2
Iowa 15 24205 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 15 78442 0.000 1
Top States for COSLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 6 14629 0.001 9
Iowa 15 24205 0.001 5
Michigan 31 38831 0.000 3
Maryland 13 35810 0.000 2
Virginia 15 31824 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COSLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COSLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COSLEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COSLEY by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COSLEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COSLEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of COSLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 159 57.82
Black/African American 106 38.55
White (Hispanic) 6 2.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COSLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

COSLEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of COSLEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COSLEY.

Similar names to COSLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COSLEY

The following words are slight variants of COSLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.