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The surname Costlow

An Irish surname, carried by 1,114 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C234

Costlow: #22,963 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Costlow #22,963, 1,114 people Costlow: #22,963 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Costlow #22,963, 1,114 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Costlow is more common than 85.8% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Variant of Costello.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,114 people named Costlow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 277,150 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,098.

#22,963
rank among US surnames
1,114
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.5%
change since 2000 (was #22,011)

Who is named Costlow

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

96% of people named Costlow identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Costlow

Costlow has the Soundex code C234, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C234.

Other Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Costlow come from?
Variant of Costello.
How common is the surname Costlow?
1,114 people in the United States had the surname Costlow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 277,150 Americans. It ranked 22,963rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Costlow?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Costlow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Costlow getting more or less common?
More common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,114 in 2010, up 1.5%.