The DECOSTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,274	9160	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	139	25031	0	3
Change since 1880	+3135	+15871	+N/A	+9
Other Countries
Australia	16	62588	0	1
United Kingdom	31	27363	0	1

Top States for DECOSTA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	857	1163	0.013	135
California	390	7793	0.001	12
Rhode Island	267	565	0.025	255
Florida	259	8241	0.002	16
New York	172	12423	0.001	9
Top States for DECOSTA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	267	565	0.025	255
Massachusetts	857	1163	0.013	135
Hawaii	155	670	0.013	128
New Hampshire	85	2483	0.007	69
Maine	56	3748	0.004	44

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of DECOSTA

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 DECOSTA 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 DECOSTA 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 DECOSTA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	341	10.42
Mixed Race	210	6.41
White (Hispanic)	209	6.38
Asian/Pacific	141	4.31
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.49
White (Caucasian)	2,357	71.99

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

Similar names to DECOSTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DECOSTA.

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.