How common is the surname Cosgrove?

9,441 people in the United States had the surname Cosgrove in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,703 Americans. It ranked 3,749th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cosgrove?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Cosgrove identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Cosgrove?

Miranda Cosgrove, American actress, singer-songwriter and producer (born 1993), followed by Peter Cosgrove.

Where is the surname Cosgrove most common?

Wikidata records people named Cosgrove in the United States and Australia.

How do you pronounce Cosgrove?

Cosgrove is /ˈkɑzɡɹoʊv/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Cosgrove getting more or less common?

More common. 9,393 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,441 in 2010, up 0.5%.

What are other spellings of Cosgrove?

Cosgrave, Cosgray, Cosgriff and Crossgrove.

The surname Cosgrove

An English patronymic surname, carried by 9,441 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈkɑzɡɹoʊv/ 2 syllables Soundex C261

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cosgrove is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

Two main origins: * English habitational surname from the village in Northamptonshire, which is named with the Old English personal name *Cōf + -s- + grāf (“grove, thicket”); recorded as Covesgrave in 1086 (DB). * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Coscraigh (“descendant of Coscrach”), a byname from coscrach (“victorious, triumphant”).

Cosgrove is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,441 people named Cosgrove in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,703 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 9,393.

#3,749

rank among US surnames

9,441

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,480)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,740	Feeney	9,473	32,592
#3,741	Smyth	9,470	32,602
#3,742	Sibley	9,467	32,613
#3,743	Fairbanks	9,466	32,616
#3,744	Cockrell	9,465	32,620
#3,745	Haugen	9,461	32,633
#3,746	McClung	9,456	32,651

Who is named Cosgrove

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Cosgrove identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Cosgroves

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Miranda Cosgrove
American actress, singer-songwriter and producer (born 1993)
Peter Cosgrove
Australian general; 26th Governor-General of Australia, born 1947
Daniel Cosgrove
American actor, born 1970
Kevin Cosgrove
American insurance business executive; died during the September 11, 2001 attack (1955–200
Samuel G. Cosgrove
American politician (1847-1909)

Notable Cosgroves come mostly from the United States (4) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Cosgrave
Cosgray
Cosgriff
Crossgrove

Cosgrove has the Soundex code C261, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C261.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Cosgrove come from?: Two main origins: * English habitational surname from the village in Northamptonshire, which is named with the Old English personal name *Cōf + -s- + grāf (“grove, thicket”); recorded as Covesgrave in 1086 (DB). * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Coscraigh (“descendant of Coscrach”), a byname…
How common is the surname Cosgrove?: 9,441 people in the United States had the surname Cosgrove in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,703 Americans. It ranked 3,749th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cosgrove?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Cosgrove identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Cosgrove?: Miranda Cosgrove, American actress, singer-songwriter and producer (born 1993), followed by Peter Cosgrove.
Where is the surname Cosgrove most common?: Wikidata records people named Cosgrove in the United States and Australia.
How do you pronounce Cosgrove?: Cosgrove is /ˈkɑzɡɹoʊv/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Cosgrove?: Cosgrove is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Cosgrove getting more or less common?: More common. 9,393 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,441 in 2010, up 0.5%.
What are other spellings of Cosgrove?: Cosgrave, Cosgray, Cosgriff and Crossgrove.