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The COUSINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,691 3748 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,370 2556 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +6321 -1192 -0.002 -15
Other Countries
Australia 1,649 986 0.01 101
United Kingdom 8,001 768 0.017 174
Top States for COUSINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 728 1363 0.010 103
Pennsylvania 656 2472 0.005 53
Florida 565 3866 0.004 35
New York 531 3910 0.003 28
California 493 6059 0.001 15
Top States for COUSINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 402 675 0.032 315
Virginia 728 1363 0.010 103
Wyoming 33 2000 0.007 67
Iowa 172 2427 0.006 59
Pennsylvania 656 2472 0.005 53

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

Classification and Origin of COUSINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 176 2.03
White (Hispanic) 130 1.5
Native American/Alaskan 53 0.61
Asian/Pacific 39 0.45
White (Caucasian) 6,130 70.53
Black/African American 2,163 24.89

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

Meaning of COUSINS in historical publications

COUSENS. COUSINS. From the Fr. causin, consanguineous, kinsman, relation by blood. Cosin, Cosyu. H.R.

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 COUSINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COUSINS.

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 COUSINS

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