The COSBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,121	3242	0.004	38
United States (1880 census)	2,279	2661	0.005	46
Change since 1880	+7842	-581	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	42	29371	0	3
United Kingdom	433	9855	0.001	9

Top States for COSBY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	974	1024	0.014	138
Alabama	946	876	0.021	213
Georgia	830	1395	0.010	101
Texas	625	3907	0.003	30
California	561	5537	0.002	17
Top States for COSBY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	946	876	0.021	213
Virginia	974	1024	0.014	138
Kentucky	451	1385	0.011	112
Georgia	830	1395	0.010	101
Mississippi	258	1715	0.009	91

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

Classification and Origin of COSBY

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 COSBY 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 COSBY 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 COSBY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	193	1.91
White (Hispanic)	172	1.7
Native American/Alaskan	38	0.38
Asian/Pacific	30	0.3
White (Caucasian)	5,290	52.27
Black/African American	4,398	43.45

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

Similar names to COSBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSBY.

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.