Kosie Surname
Approximately 452 people bear this surname
Kosie Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 238 | 1:227,637 | 23,639 |
| Nigeria | 69 | 1:2,567,286 | 83,988 |
| Canada | 42 | 1:877,276 | 67,671 |
| United States | 30 | 1:12,081,964 | 463,456 |
| Papua New Guinea | 27 | 1:301,990 | 40,635 |
| Botswana | 22 | 1:99,406 | 15,343 |
| Lesotho | 18 | 1:112,920 | 11,579 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1:7,174,098 | 302,835 |
The alternate forms: Kosié (1) are calculated separately.
Kosie (708) may also be a first name.
Kosie Demographics
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Kosie Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kosie Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kosie is most common in South Africa. It can appear as a variant: Kosié. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kosie? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 663,740th most widespread family name globally, held by around 1 in 16,122,889 people. The surname Kosie is mostly found in Africa, where 77 percent of Kosie live; 62 percent live in Southern Africa and 62 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Kosie is also the 310,437th most prevalent given name in the world, borne by 708 people.
The surname Kosie is most commonly held in South Africa, where it is held by 238 people, or 1 in 227,637. In South Africa Kosie is mostly concentrated in: Western Cape, where 30 percent reside, Gauteng, where 23 percent reside and Eastern Cape, where 19 percent reside. Not including South Africa this last name exists in 12 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 15 percent reside and Canada, where 9 percent reside.
Kosie Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Kosie has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 429 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kosie Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Kosie surname are 33.23% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 80% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kosie earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 34.51% less than the national average, earning R 155,640 per year; in United States they earn 32.7% more than the national average, earning $57,259 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.52% less than the national average, earning $40,979 CAD per year.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Kosie
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