Cosgrove

8,983 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cosgrove in the 2020 census, making it the 3,849th most common in the country. That is about one person in 33,300.

By the numbers

People: 8,983
Rank: 3,849th
How common: 1 in 33,300
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

English habitational surname from the village in Northamptonshire, which is named with the Old English personal name *Cōf + -s- + grāf (“grove, thicket”); recorded as Covesgrave in 1086 (DB).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cosgrove described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Cosgrove

Miranda Cosgrove (born 1993)American actress and producer
Peter Cosgrove (born 1947)Australian general; 26th Governor-General of Australia
Daniel Cosgrove (born 1970)American actor
Kevin Cosgrove (1955–2001)American insurance business executive; died during the September 11, 2001 attack
Sam Cosgrove (born 1996)English association football player

People named Cosgrove with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cosgrove

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.