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The KOSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,137 5226 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 785 6657 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +5352 +1431 0 +7
Other Countries
Australia 332 4743 0.002 20
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KOSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 750 1509 0.008 75
New York 538 3692 0.003 28
California 478 6019 0.001 14
Illinois 392 3391 0.003 32
Florida 349 5807 0.002 22
Top States for KOSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 96 939 0.013 127
Iowa 287 1233 0.010 98
Michigan 750 1509 0.008 75
Kansas 193 1667 0.007 72
Idaho 69 2746 0.005 53

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

Classification and Origin of KOSTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KOSTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KOSTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KOSTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 88 1.43
Mixed Race 74 1.21
Asian/Pacific 30 0.49
Black/African American 30 0.49
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.46
White (Caucasian) 5,887 95.93

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

Meaning of KOSTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to KOSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOSTER.

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 KOSTER

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