The origin of the name Cousins is English and the Coat of Arms contains A silver shield with a gold hare, seated, holding a bunch of flowers.
Spelling variations include: Cousin, Cousins, Cozens, Cossins, Couzins, Cossens, Cosin and many more.
First found in Yorkshire and in the southern counties of England, where the cousins family was seated after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Cosins who settled in Maryland in 1683; Richard Cousin settled in Grenada in 1774; Edward Cousins settled in Maryland in 1774; George Cousins settled in Massachusetts in 1635.
