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The COSTA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 35,227 900 0.013 131
United States (1880 census) 444 10631 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +34783 +9731 +0.012 +122
Other Countries
Australia 1,797 906 0.011 110
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COSTA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 7,514 36 0.118 1,183
California 5,560 528 0.016 164
Florida 3,548 504 0.022 222
New York 3,016 506 0.016 159
New Jersey 2,947 199 0.035 350
Top States for COSTA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 1,871 10 0.178 1,785
Massachusetts 7,514 36 0.118 1,183
New Jersey 2,947 199 0.035 350
Connecticut 1,061 278 0.031 312
New Hampshire 385 437 0.031 312

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

Classification and Origin of COSTA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 486 1.38
Black/African American 426 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 127 0.36
White (Caucasian) 29,362 83.35
White (Hispanic) 2,987 8.48
Mixed Race 1,839 5.22

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

Meaning of COSTA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COSTA.

Similar names to COSTA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSTA.

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 COSTA

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