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The KOS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,621 16360 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 55 47057 0 1
Change since 1880 +1566 +30697 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 233 6573 0.001 14
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KOS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 223 5282 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 123 10918 0.001 10
Massachusetts 114 6510 0.002 18
New York 100 16820 0.001 5
California 94 22176 0.000 3
Top States for KOS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 67 6066 0.002 23
Illinois 223 5282 0.002 18
Massachusetts 114 6510 0.002 18
Connecticut 58 7072 0.002 17
Minnesota 67 10492 0.001 14

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KOS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KOS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KOS in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KOS by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KOS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KOS surname.

Ethnic distribution of KOS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 32 1.97
White (Hispanic) 24 1.48
Asian/Pacific 16 0.99
White (Caucasian) 1,536 94.76
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KOS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

KOS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KOS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KOS.

Similar names to KOS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KOS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KOS

The following words are slight variants of KOS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.