Cowards Surname

4,908,606th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
England

Cowards Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cowards Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States131:27,881,456736,413
England21:27,859,030389,889
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England181:1,354,18747,798
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Cowards Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cowards Come From? nationality or country of origin

Cowards occurs most in The United States. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Cowards? popularity and diffusion

The last name Cowards is the 4,908,606th most prevalent family name in the world, held by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name Cowards is predominantly found in The Americas, where 81 percent of Cowards are found; 81 percent are found in North America and 81 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most numerous in The United States, where it is borne by 13 people, or 1 in 27,881,456. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Mississippi, where 54 percent reside, Texas, where 38 percent reside and Arkansas, where 8 percent reside. Apart from The United States this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in England, where 13 percent reside and Russia, where 6 percent reside.

Cowards Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Cowards has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cowards last name grew 1,300 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 89 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Cowards Last Name Statistics demography

Cowards earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 16.69% less than the national average, earning $35,946 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Cowarts863/
Cowerts711/
Kowartsch631/
Covartsch630/
Kowarz62316/
Kowarc624/
Zowarz621/
Kovarts5725/
Coverts577/
Kowarcz572/
Kowartz571/
Cobartz570/
Couverts531/
Chuvarts531/
Chuwartz531/
Coyvaertz501/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cowards
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