The COSTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,750	6580	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	501	9657	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+4249	+3077	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	3	196703	0	0
United Kingdom	229	15148	0	5

Top States for COSTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	519	4591	0.002	25
North Carolina	459	2665	0.006	57
Florida	312	7010	0.002	20
Louisiana	290	2332	0.006	65
Virginia	287	3362	0.004	41
Top States for COSTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	65	2413	0.008	83
Louisiana	290	2332	0.006	65
North Carolina	459	2665	0.006	57
Maine	64	3393	0.005	50
Arkansas	113	3308	0.004	42

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

Classification and Origin of COSTON

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 COSTON 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 COSTON 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 COSTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	93	1.96
White (Hispanic)	81	1.71
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.48
Asian/Pacific	16	0.34
Black/African American	2,320	48.84
White (Caucasian)	2,217	46.67

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

Similar names to COSTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COSTON.

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.