Couse

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from ON Kausi, a nickname meaning 'tom-cat'; first attested Robertus filius Cous 1297 MinAcctCo

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Couse is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • ITItaly
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from ON Kausi, a nickname meaning 'tom-cat'; first attested Robertus filius Cous 1297 MinAcctCo

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Couse is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, first/third-person singular present subjunctive of coudre

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, vocative masculine singular of coūsus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, inflection of cousir:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Kenton Couse, b. 1721Eanger Irving Couse, b. 1866William Percy Couse, b. 1898Dave Couse, b. 1965

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Couse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020576#40,855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000544#38,263
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010520#41,799
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
BB BarbadosBarbados — Electoral register, deceased-voters slice20251#39
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Couse mean, and where does it come from?
from ON Kausi, a nickname meaning 'tom-cat'; first attested Robertus filius Cous 1297 MinAcctCo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Couse have the most bearers?
Couse is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Couse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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