6 first cousins and 12 first cousins once removed(if I have my cousin terminology correct) so technically 18?
My late father has 13 siblings and my mother has 4. I not particularly close to any of them but I know I have over 30 first cousins.
Mom was one of 12; Dad of 3. I think I have like 25ish on my mom’s side, most of whom I’ve seen at least once in the last 5 years. We are not in contact with my dad’s side, to the point that when one of them made the national news a few years ago for some bat shit Trumper shit (the crazy teacher in Ft Worth who was tweeting at Trump about “illegals” in her school) , I didn’t know she was my first cousin until my mom told me. I never met her, but her mom was crazy too and I was raised on stories about both of them. I think I have 6 on that side.
The pedant in me insists I menrion that your first cousin’s kids are also your first cousins, as are your parent’s first cousins. Add them in and it’s probably at least 50.
Jumping back in to scream from the rooftop: The children of your first cousins are most definitely NOT your first cousins. They are your first cousins once removed. The same is true of the first cousins of your parents.
Four, though two have died.
It’s possible that I have cousins on my mother’s side but my mother was separated from her family at 6 when she was sent to Finland from Estonia days after the invasion of Poland for, we assume, safety reasons, though she wasn’t Jewish. Her family tree is one big blank.
That is a type of first cousin.
By definition, a first cousin is a child of an aunt or uncle. First cousins share a set of grandparents.
If a relationship between two individuals does not satisfy the above criteria, those two individuals are not first cousins.
I guess I read the number of removals as a modifier on the broader case of “first cousins”. Removes are special cases within that class. Like, paternal grandparents are a special case of “grandparent”.
But I can tell you feel very strongly about this and I don’t, so I was concede.
42 first cousins, living and dead. My mother was one of 11, my dad one of 6.
StG
Although the poll seemed to be asking about the number of first cousins you “currently” have, I answered 11 as that’s how many I had originally. Three are deceased so I have 8 currently.
I have 2 on my father’s side and 7 on my mother’s, total 9.
I have two living full first cousins, and several (5 or 6 I guess, if they’re still alive) living half-first cousins from my father’s half-brothers. We don’t have anything to do with each other, not due to a falling-out or anything, just that our lives have gone along separate paths.
My maternal grandmother had 6 daughters and IIRC one son who lived to adulthood. All had at least 4 kids so at least 24 on that side. My paternal grandmother had at least 5 kids, one daughter had 12(!), I’m guessing the others had at least 4 so that is 30 on that side.
(yes, Catholic)
On the maternal side I am the youngest grandkid – not sure on my paternal side (probably)
Not sure how many are still alive – I’ve probably met < 20
Brian
Nine on my mom’s side, one of them deceased. I have no idea how many on my dad’s side, as they were all on the other side of the country and I haven’t had any contact with that side of the family since his parents died when I was little. My dad has been dead for some time (and I was estranged from him long before that), so I never had the chance to ask him.
Only thing I know for sure about that side of the family is that it includes Spanky from Our Gang and the MLB umpire who got shoved by Pete Rose, and that my grandpa, my dad, and myself were all named after Mary Pickford’s brother who was some acquaintance of my great-grandparents.
I had 10, or maybe 11 - it’s likely that one uncle’s daughter wasn’t his. But even if I included her, at the moment, I have 8 living first cousins, 5 of them are in their 70s, and the youngest is maybe 53?
Niether of my parents have siblings, so I have no aunts, uncles, or first cousins.
I seem to remember hearing my grandparents on my mother’s side had 52 grandchildren. If that isn’t the correct number, it’s close.
Subtract me and my siblings, add the cousins on my father’s side and it would be 50-something.
I have as many as 28, but about 10 are deceased. This includes two step-cousins, but my uncle married their mother when they were really small, and no one in the family has ever referred to them as step-cousins.
I’ve got six, and my wife has a similar number.
My family’s had a fairly consistent pattern of 2-4 children, with 4 being more unusual than not, so there aren’t usually ever really more than 8-10 in a set of first cousins in any generation.
My wife’s family had a family of like six kids a few generations ago, so while she’s only got six first cousins, she’s got a humongous raft of second cousins- like dozens. I have considerably fewer because my great-whatever grandparents only had 2-3 kids.
One on my mother’s side (how ya doin’, Nicky?), not sure on my father’s, I’m not particularly close to that side of the family and at least one of my dad’s brothers couldn’t keep it in his pants so he could have had more children than the three(? or was it two?) that the family knows about. I think I have 11 on that side.
Edited to add: as far as I know, all are still living.
Mrs. H has five on her mom’s side* and maybe three or four or five on her father’s side; she’s not close to that side of the family and they haven’t spoken to her in decades.
*Mrs. H’s mother, J, has two siblings, R and O. All three siblings each had two children.