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    The surname Coss

    A surname, carried by 4,156 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C200

    Coss: #7,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coss #7,961, 4,156 people Coss: #7,961 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coss #7,961, 4,156 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coss is more common than 95.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,156 people named Coss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,289 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,634.

    #7,961
    rank among US surnames
    4,156
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.4%
    change since 2000 (was #8,366)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,955Beech4,16074,218
    #7,956Tarantino4,15874,253
    #7,958Nipper4,15774,271
    #7,961Coss4,15674,289
    #7,964Harbour4,15574,307

    Who is named Coss

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

    56% of people named Coss identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 41%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coss

    Coss has the Soundex code C200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Coss?
    4,156 people in the United States had the surname Coss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,289 Americans. It ranked 7,961st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coss?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Coss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Coss getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,156 in 2010, up 14%.