The COOKSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,158	9448	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	629	8027	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+2529	-1421	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	395	4011	0.002	24
United Kingdom	4,478	1401	0.01	97

Top States for COOKSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	391	663	0.031	307
California	357	7791	0.001	11
Illinois	175	7716	0.001	14
Massachusetts	174	4971	0.003	27
Missouri	151	4952	0.003	27
Top States for COOKSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	391	663	0.031	307
Vermont	70	1601	0.011	115
Rhode Island	54	3063	0.005	52
New Hampshire	55	3330	0.004	45
Oklahoma	117	3959	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of COOKSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	62	1.96
White (Hispanic)	55	1.74
Native American/Alaskan	51	1.61
Black/African American	50	1.58
Asian/Pacific	14	0.44
White (Caucasian)	2,926	92.65

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

Similar names to COOKSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COOKSON.

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.