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The ACOSTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 76,477 377 0.028 284
United States (1880 census) 464 10283 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +76013 +9906 +0.027 +275
Other Countries
Australia 202 7493 0.001 12
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ACOSTA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 19,157 167 0.057 566
Texas 13,787 203 0.066 661
Florida 10,699 179 0.067 669
New York 5,376 346 0.028 283
Arizona 3,505 162 0.068 683
Top States for ACOSTA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 1,529 122 0.084 841
Arizona 3,505 162 0.068 683
Florida 10,699 179 0.067 669
Texas 13,787 203 0.066 661
Nevada 1,141 196 0.057 571

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

Classification and Origin of ACOSTA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ACOSTA 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 ACOSTA 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 ACOSTA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 528 0.69
Mixed Race 482 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 222 0.29
White (Hispanic) 67,292 87.99
White (Caucasian) 6,149 8.04
Asian/Pacific 1,805 2.36

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

Meaning of ACOSTA in historical publications

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

Similar names to ACOSTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ACOSTA.

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 ACOSTA

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