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The KOST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,161 9434 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 296 14439 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +2865 +5005 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 71 19182 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KOST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 366 4066 0.003 30
Ohio 236 5773 0.002 21
New York 214 8777 0.001 11
Illinois 188 6783 0.002 15
California 158 15221 0.000 5
Top States for KOST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 150 455 0.020 199
North Dakota 75 1138 0.012 117
Wyoming 25 2570 0.005 51
Minnesota 153 4479 0.003 31
Pennsylvania 366 4066 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of KOST

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

Ethnic distribution of KOST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 39 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 36 1.14
Mixed Race 33 1.04
White (Caucasian) 3,038 96.11
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KOST in historical publications

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

Similar names to KOST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOST.

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 KOST

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