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    The surname Cost

    A surname, carried by 1,503 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C230

    Cost: #18,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cost #18,423, 1,503 people Cost: #18,423 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cost #18,423, 1,503 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cost is more common than 88.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,503 people named Cost in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,420 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,474.

    #18,423
    rank among US surnames
    1,503
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #17,582)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,423Pilot1,503205,420
    #18,431Goggans1,502205,556

    Who is named Cost

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

    87% of people named Cost identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cost

    Cost has the Soundex code C230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C230.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cost?
    1,503 people in the United States had the surname Cost in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,420 Americans. It ranked 18,423rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cost?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Cost identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cost getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,503 in 2010, up 2.0%.