Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Kosmas isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kosmas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,084 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,084 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 117 as a first name in 2020; 280 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kosmas’s family of names
In English usage, Kosmas has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Kosma. In Icelandic usage, Kosmas has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Кузьма.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kosmas
- Cosmas Indicopleustes6th-century Greek traveller and merchant600–550
- Balanos VasilopoulosGreek priest and educator, mathematician1694–1760
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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