cousin vs nephew

cousin

noun
  • The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin. 

  • Something kindred or related to something else. 

  • Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc. 

  • A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective). 

nephew

noun
  • A son of one's cousin or cousin-in-law 

  • A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew). 

How often have the words cousin and nephew occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )