The KOESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,036	4609	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	823	6400	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+6213	+1791	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	9	98653	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for KOESTER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	1,112	1081	0.009	90
Ohio	484	2824	0.004	43
Missouri	464	1520	0.008	83
Minnesota	363	1569	0.007	74
Texas	342	5743	0.002	16
Top States for KOESTER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Iowa	280	1212	0.010	96
Illinois	1,112	1081	0.009	90
Missouri	464	1520	0.008	83
Nebraska	128	1565	0.007	75
Minnesota	363	1569	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of KOESTER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KOESTER 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.

Ethnic distribution of KOESTER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	55	0.78
White (Hispanic)	48	0.68
Asian/Pacific	34	0.48
Black/African American	11	0.16
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.09
White (Caucasian)	6,882	97.81

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

Similar names to KOESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOESTER.

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.