Given name & surname · also Polish
Kosak
“beehive”
Kosak is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kosak has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Proto-Slavic *kosъ; as a Slovene surname, it goes back to a word meaning “kind of nut tree”; as a Serbo-Croatian surname, it goes back to a word meaning “basket”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kosak’s family of names
In English usage, Kosak as a surname has a related form in Kós. In Greek usage, Kosak as a surname is a transliteration of Κόσακ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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