Courage is used as a family name or surname in Scandinavian. It is 7 characters long in length.
Family Name / Last Name: Courage
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Scandinavian
Meaning: May be corrupted from Coulrake; from Scandinavian name Ceolric or from Coleridge; or from Coleridge, name of a hundred and parish co. Devon. Courage may be from Currage, a manor in the parish of Cheveley co. Bucks. A family of this name settled here after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Some scholars compares Courage with Old Gaelic Gawirich, Goerich having Old Gaelic gawi and Gaelic gau, a country or district.
How popular is Courage?
Courage is ranked 131907 on our list.
Despite the fact that the number of Courage bearers increased by 5.067567 per cent in 2010 US census to 311 since 2000, the surname slipped by 913 spots and ranked at 64054. The last name was found in around 1 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.
Race | 2010 | 2000 |
---|---|---|
White | 83.28 | 94.93 |
Black | 7.07 | 0 |
Others | 4.5 | 2.36 |
Hispanic or Latino | 3.54 | 0 |
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,340
Iceland6
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1,014,159
India4
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9,097
Wales3
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19,093
Finland2
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Finland.png)
41,879
Turkey2
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Turkey.png)
6,462
Ivory Coast2
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Ivory Coast.png)
21,929
Algeria2
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Algeria.png)
20,186
Kenya2
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Kenya.png)
20,172
Hungary1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Hungary.png)
2,057
Isle of Man1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Isle of Man.png)
31,584
Peru1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Peru.png)
17,575
Kuwait1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Kuwait.png)
15,162
Costa Rica1
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10,190
Bahrain1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Bahrain.png)
47,891
Norway1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Norway.png)
4,171
Rwanda1
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Rwanda.png)
66,560
Philippines1
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Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,780
Scotland46
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Scotland.png)
7,570
Ireland38
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/Ireland.png)
24,534
New Zealand17
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11,059
Nigeria13
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Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
35,569
Netherlands62
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36,287
Australia59
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Countries with hundreds of Courage:
3,725
Ghana799
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12,259
England495
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/England.png)
60,022
United States425
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/United States.png)
23,687
France416
![](https://surnameslist.org/design/flags/France.png)
12,537
Canada306
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71,225
Germany134
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39,125
South Africa128
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Courage Namesakes
- Piers Courage, Racing driver
- Alexander Courage, Composer
- James Courage, Novelist
- Dutch Courage, Musical Artist
- Gaye Courage, Actress
- James Francis Courage, Poet
- Dutch Courage, Musical Artist
- Gaye Courage, Actress
- Piers Courage, Racing driver
- Alexander Courage, Composer
- Couce
- Couche
- Couchie
- Coudeville
- Couette
- Coulange (France)
- Coulee (Ireland)
- Coulée
- Couleville (Ireland, England)
- Couloe (Ireland, Scotland)
Alexander Courage, American veteran composer of soundtracks
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