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The COSTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,502 17351 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 489 9869 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1013 -7482 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 443 3583 0.003 27
United Kingdom 1,063 5001 0.002 23
Top States for COSTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 163 11253 0.001 9
California 145 16088 0.000 4
Maryland 120 4721 0.002 23
Florida 84 19191 0.001 5
South Carolina 76 5460 0.002 19
Top States for COSTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 120 4721 0.002 23
Montana 20 6799 0.002 22
South Carolina 76 5460 0.002 19
Wyoming 9 7507 0.002 18
North Dakota 8 11806 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of COSTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 72 4.79
White (Hispanic) 30 2
Mixed Race 14 0.93
Asian/Pacific 9 0.6
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,370 91.21

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

Meaning of COSTER in historical publications

COSTER. COSTAR. Du. ''Rosier, deurwaarder van een Catholyke kerk," Marin's Diet. A sacristan.

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 COSTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSTER.

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 COSTER

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