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    The surname Coster

    A surname, carried by 1,646 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C236

    Coster: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Coster #17,202, 1,646 people Coster: #17,202 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Coster #17,202, 1,646 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Coster is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,646 people named Coster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. That is up 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,502.

    #17,202
    rank among US surnames
    1,646
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.6%
    change since 2000 (was #17,351)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,193Vancleve1,647187,459
    #17,202Entrekin1,646187,573

    Who is named Coster

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

    90% of people named Coster identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Costers

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Ritchie Coster
      Actor, born 1967
    • Nicolas Coster
      American actor (1933–2023)
    • Tom Coster
      American musician, born 1941

    Notable Costers come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Coster

    Coster has the Soundex code C236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C236.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Coster?
    1,646 people in the United States had the surname Coster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 187,573 Americans. It ranked 17,202nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Coster?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Coster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Coster?
    Ritchie Coster, actor, followed by Nicolas Coster.
    Where is the surname Coster most common?
    Wikidata records people named Coster in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    Is the surname Coster getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,502 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,646 in 2010, up 9.6%.