The COSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,634	8366	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	801	6537	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+2833	-1829	-0.001	-2
Other Countries
Australia	112	12937	0.001	7
United Kingdom	219	15597	0	5

Top States for COSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	420	7298	0.001	12
Ohio	417	3758	0.004	37
Texas	257	8026	0.001	12
Illinois	227	6410	0.002	18
Michigan	224	6080	0.002	23
Top States for COSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	26	4911	0.004	40
Ohio	417	3758	0.004	37
New Mexico	63	2928	0.003	35
Arizona	171	3888	0.003	33
West Virginia	58	3648	0.003	32

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

Classification and Origin of COSS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	76	2.09
Mixed Race	35	0.96
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.52
Asian/Pacific	8	0.22
White (Caucasian)	2,332	64.17
White (Hispanic)	1,164	32.03

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

Similar names to COSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSS.

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.