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    The surname Kosch

    A surname, carried by 683 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kosch is more common than 79.4% of them.

    Origin

    Borrowed from a Slavic language; probably a short of form of a personal name like Mikuś or Jakus.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 683 people named Kosch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 452,043 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 681.

    #33,410
    rank among US surnames
    683
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.3%
    change since 2000 (was #31,986)

    Who is named Kosch

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

    95% of people named Kosch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kosch

    Kosch has the Soundex code K200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kosch come from?
    Borrowed from a Slavic language; probably a short of form of a personal name like Mikuś or Jakus.
    How common is the surname Kosch?
    683 people in the United States had the surname Kosch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 452,043 Americans. It ranked 33,410th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kosch?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kosch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kosch getting more or less common?
    More common. 681 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 683 in 2010, up 0.3%.