Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- Fifeshire (820)
- North Yorkshire (789)
- Lincolnshire (632)
- Strathclyde (543)
- London (480)
- Lothian (441)
- Cumbria (370)
- County Durham (300)
- Derbyshire (284)
- Lancashire (281)
- Northumberland (265)
- Norfolk (192)
- Warwickshire (186)
- Kent (170)
- East Sussex (140)
- Cambridgeshire (113)
- Suffolk (112)
- Devon (110)
- Northamptonshire (91)
- Essex (80)
- Hampshire (74)
- Dorset (72)
- Surrey (67)
- Central (66)
- Nottinghamshire (59)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (57)
- Wiltshire (54)
- Tayside (53)
- Gloucestershire (49)
- Cheshire (46)
- Bedfordshire (44)
- Somerset (38)
- Cornwall (35)
- Hertfordshire (29)
- West Yorkshire (29)
- Staffordshire (28)
- Oxfordshire (26)
- Merseyside (22)
- Avon (21)
- Buckinghamshire (18)
- Berkshire (18)
- Antrim (14)
- Dyfed (14)
- Grampian (14)
- Dumfries and Galloway (13)
- Jersey (13)
- Leicestershire (13)
- Shropshire (13)
- South Glamorgan (13)
- Borders (12)
- South Yorkshire (8)
- Tyne and Wear (8)
- Armagh (6)
- Highlands (6)
- Orkney Isles (6)
- West Midlands (6)
- Humberside (5)
- West Sussex (5)
- Cleveland (4)
- Gwent (4)
All countries
- France (874,587)
- Belgium (18,518)
- United Kingdom (8,204)
- United States (4,773)
- Netherlands (2,735)
- Switzerland (2,421)
- Réunion (2,015)
- Canada (1,494)
- Germany (1,104)
- Venezuela (1,087)
- Unknown country (1,017)
- Algeria (989)
- New Zealand (643)
- Italy (590)
- Australia (471)
- Spain (345)
- Guadeloupe (135)
- Martinique (130)
- Ireland (128)
- Poland (122)
- Morocco (120)
- French Guiana (115)
- Viet Nam (107)
- Russian Federation (88)
- Tunisia (88)
- St. Pierre and Miquelon (87)
- Luxembourg (82)
- New Caledonia (73)
- Israel (71)
- Turkey (54)
- Indonesia (53)
- India (49)
- Greece (46)
- Austria (40)
- Sweden (36)
- Brazil (30)
- Chile (30)
- Guinea (27)
- Mexico (27)
- Senegal (27)
Origine of last name
COUSIN : 1: French: nickname from Old French cusin cosin ‘first cousin’ from Latin consobrinus used (also) in the sense ‘friend crony’. Compare with 2.2: English: nickname from Middle English cusin cosin ‘kinsman or cousin’ a borrowing from Old French (see 1 above). The surname would thus have denoted a person related in some way to a prominent figure in the neighborhood. In some cases it may also have been a nickname for someone who used the term cousin frequently as a familiar term of address.
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