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The COSGRAVE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 380 51458 0 1
United States (1880 census) 188 20183 0 4
Change since 1880 +192 -31275 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 128 11471 0.001 8
United Kingdom 454 9495 0.001 10
Top States for COSGRAVE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 55 18965 0.000 5
California 51 35178 0.000 2
Florida 39 32232 0.000 2
New York 39 36998 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 35 32502 0.000 3
Top States for COSGRAVE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 7 12330 0.001 11
Oklahoma 27 10912 0.001 8
Ohio 55 18965 0.000 5
Utah 10 14984 0.000 4
Massachusetts 19 30293 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of COSGRAVE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 373 98.16
Mixed Race 5 1.32
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COSGRAVE in historical publications

COSGROVE. COSGRAVE. A parish in Northamptonshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to COSGRAVE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSGRAVE.

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 COSGRAVE

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