Couzens Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Arms linked to Cousins and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Spellings drift, and Couzens is where Cousins drifted for some families. The family name meaning is “Cousin / kinsman”, the same as for Cousins.

Records show Couzens as one of the forms Cousins took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Cosyns, Cossins and Cussins. Couzens ranked 48,436 in the 2010 US Census, with 436 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Get the complete Couzens report, with a museum-style coat of arms.