The COURSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,643	8351	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	686	7479	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2957	-872	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	4	179675	0	0
United Kingdom	18	29043	0	0

Top States for COURSEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	518	2014	0.006	63
Texas	477	4511	0.002	23
Kentucky	223	2438	0.006	55
California	200	12664	0.001	6
Maryland	177	3402	0.003	33
Top States for COURSEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	60	2366	0.008	77
Georgia	518	2014	0.006	63
Kentucky	223	2438	0.006	55
Oklahoma	132	3485	0.004	38
South Carolina	138	3747	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of COURSEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	332	9.11
White (Hispanic)	67	1.84
Mixed Race	64	1.76
Native American/Alaskan	55	1.51
Asian/Pacific	14	0.38
White (Caucasian)	3,111	85.4

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

Similar names to COURSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COURSEY.

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.