Cousin

3,364 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cousin in the 2020 census, making it the 9,284th most common in the country. That is about one person in 88,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,364
Rank: 9,284th
How common: 1 in 88,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From Middle English Cosyn, a surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 56.6%
White, not Hispanic 28.6%
Hispanic or Latino 8.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cousin

Victor Cousin (1792–1867)French philosopher
Daniel Cousin (born 1977)Gabonese footballer
Jérôme Cousin (born 1989)road bicycle racer
Louis Cousin (1627–1707)French translator and journalist
Ertharin Cousin (born 1957)12th Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme
Jean Cousin (1490–1560)French painter, sculptor and engraver (ca. 1490-ca. 1560)
Jehan Cousin the Younger (1522–1594)French artist (c.1522–1595)

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

Surnames like Cousin

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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.