The COWARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,880	5443	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,594	3640	0.003	32
Change since 1880	+4286	-1803	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	619	2609	0.004	38
United Kingdom	3,541	1768	0.008	77

Top States for COWARD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	810	1603	0.010	101
Texas	704	3477	0.003	34
South Carolina	496	1437	0.012	124
Florida	401	5329	0.003	25
Tennessee	266	3124	0.005	47
Top States for COWARD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	496	1437	0.012	124
North Carolina	810	1603	0.010	101
Washington DC	55	1205	0.010	96
Mississippi	238	1801	0.008	84
Tennessee	266	3124	0.005	47

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

Classification and Origin of COWARD

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 COWARD 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 COWARD 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 COWARD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	154	2.62
Mixed Race	100	1.7
Asian/Pacific	30	0.51
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.22
White (Caucasian)	3,724	63.33
Black/African American	1,859	31.62

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

Similar names to COWARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COWARD.

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.