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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

'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.

Meaning of COURSEY in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COURSEY

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