The COGSWELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,418	8826	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,557	3717	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+1861	-5109	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	49	25691	0	3
United Kingdom	196	16675	0	4

Top States for COGSWELL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	357	3424	0.004	36
California	295	9173	0.001	9
Florida	224	8592	0.001	14
Massachusetts	197	4402	0.003	31
New York	185	10579	0.001	10
Top States for COGSWELL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	113	2058	0.009	89
New Hampshire	73	2578	0.006	59
Michigan	357	3424	0.004	36
Rhode Island	36	4486	0.003	34
Massachusetts	197	4402	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of COGSWELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	64	1.87
White (Hispanic)	63	1.84
Mixed Race	48	1.4
Asian/Pacific	31	0.91
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.67
White (Caucasian)	3,189	93.3

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

Similar names to COGSWELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COGSWELL.

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.