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
Courage is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Ghana which may be its originating country too. Around 2970 people have been found who wears Courage as their family name. Courage is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,340 Iceland6
1,014,159 India4
9,097 Wales3
19,093 Finland2
41,879 Turkey2
6,462 Ivory Coast2
21,929 Algeria2
20,186 Kenya2
20,172 Hungary1
2,057 Isle of Man1
31,584 Peru1
17,575 Kuwait1
15,162 Costa Rica1
10,190 Bahrain1
47,891 Norway1
4,171 Rwanda1
66,560 Philippines1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,780 Scotland46
7,570 Ireland38
24,534 New Zealand17
11,059 Nigeria13
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
35,569 Netherlands62
36,287 Australia59
Countries with hundreds of Courage:
3,725 Ghana799
12,259 England495
60,022 United States425
23,687 France416
12,537 Canada306
71,225 Germany134
39,125 South Africa128
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Comments

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Derrick Wene
 Courage is a family name that refers to a brave, courageous, also the name of place of origin Lot-et-Garonne.

Courage Namesakes

    Alexander Courage, American veteran composer of soundtracks
  • 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

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