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The DECOSTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 958 24471 0 4
United States (1880 census) 7 95421 0 0
Change since 1880 +951 +70950 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DECOSTE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 324 2234 0.005 51
New York 121 12813 0.001 6
Florida 85 16388 0.001 5
Michigan 44 22817 0.000 4
California 43 39933 0.000 1
Top States for DECOSTE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 324 2234 0.005 51
New Hampshire 42 3393 0.003 34
Rhode Island 25 4957 0.002 24
Maine 20 6321 0.002 16
Vermont 9 7118 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of DECOSTE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DECOSTE surname.

Ethnic distribution of DECOSTE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 879 91.75
Black/African American 39 4.07
White (Hispanic) 22 2.3
Mixed Race 12 1.25
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

DECOSTE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DECOSTE in historical publications

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

Similar names to DECOSTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DECOSTE.

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 DECOSTE

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