Given name & surname
Kosta
“a steadfast woman”
Kosta is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a steadfast woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a steadfast woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kosta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 417
- 417 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,982 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +5%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,982 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 5.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 842 as a first name in 2020; 671 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.
Kosta’s family of names
In Polish usage, Kosta is a diminutive of KONSTANDINOS. In German usage, Kosta has a related form in Konstantin. In Turkish usage, Kosta has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Kostas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kosta has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Konstantinvariant · German
- Kostasvariant · English, Polish
- Konstandinosfull form · Polish
- Kostushavariant
- Kosteahvariant
- Kosteavariant
- Kostyavariant
- Kostiahvariant
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Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Constantineequivalent
- Konstantinosequivalent
- Constantinequivalent
- Konstantyequivalent
- Костянтинequivalent
- Konstantynequivalent
- Константинequivalent
- Kostiantynequivalent
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People named Kosta
- Kosta KhetagurovOssetian poet (1859-1906)
- Kosta BarbarousesNew Zealand footballerborn 1990
- Kosta KoufosGreek-American basketball playerborn 1989
- Kosta PećanacSerbian Chetnik commander (1879–1944)
- Kosta PerovićSerbian basketball player (born 1985)
- Kosta TomaševićSerbian footballer (1923-1976)
- Kosta NedeljkovićSerbian association football player (2005-)
- Kosta AbraševićSerbian poet (1879–1898)
- Kosta RunjaićGerman association football player and managerborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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