Koski Family History
- Koski Name Meaning
- Finnish: ornamental name from koski ‘waterfall’, ‘rapids’. This was one of the many words denoting natural features that were used in the formation of Finnish surnames during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the U.S. this is sometimes a shortened form of other Finnish surnames formed with this element, e.g. Kalliokoski, Ylikoski. Polish: habitational name from any of several places called Koski, named with kos ‘blackbird’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 99,030 Historical Documents with Koski on Ancestry
- 43,990 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 18,647 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,208 Military Records
- 8,317 Immigration Records
- 22,868 Member Trees
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Number of Koski families
 100 - 197  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Koski families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Koski census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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from the Civil War Service Records
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