McCosh
English
editEtymology
editAnglicized form of Scottish Gaelic and Northern Irish Mac Coise (“son of Cos”), a byname deriving from cos (“foot, leg”).
Proper noun
editMcCosh (plural McCoshes)
- A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, McCosh is the 36695th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 609 individuals. McCosh is most common among White (97.04%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “McCosh”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 548.