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The KOSTERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 381 51352 0 1
United States (1880 census) 39 56261 0 1
Change since 1880 +342 +4909 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 13 74060 0 1
United Kingdom 11 30300 0 0
Top States for KOSTERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 72 18426 0.001 7
South Dakota 55 2252 0.007 73
Iowa 34 13644 0.001 12
California 28 74809 0.000 1
Texas 26 44566 0.000 1
Top States for KOSTERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 55 2252 0.007 73
Wyoming 6 12207 0.001 12
Iowa 34 13644 0.001 12
Alaska 6 18021 0.001 10
Michigan 72 18426 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of KOSTERS

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

Ethnic distribution of KOSTERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 377 98.95
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of KOSTERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to KOSTERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOSTERS.

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 KOSTERS

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