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The COST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,474 17582 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 405 11386 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1069 -6196 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 12 77687 0 1
United Kingdom 37 26946 0 1
Top States for COST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 232 5897 0.002 20
Alabama 152 3669 0.003 34
Pennsylvania 137 10710 0.001 11
California 113 20368 0.000 3
Texas 74 19116 0.000 4
Top States for COST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 152 3669 0.003 34
Rhode Island 32 4778 0.003 31
Ohio 232 5897 0.002 20
West Virginia 35 4750 0.002 19
Maine 16 8591 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of COST

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

Ethnic distribution of COST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 119 8.07
White (Hispanic) 19 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,322 89.69
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of COST in historical publications

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

Similar names to COST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COST.

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 COST

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