Khosta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Khosta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 77Kas Josta(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2Mas Josta
- SESweden1 in 2.6Mas Josta
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Khosta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
224 named Josta
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, as Josta
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Josta in NL Netherlands, US United States, SV El Salvador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khosta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 224as Josta | 1 in 77K | 224 | Josta | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 4as Josta | 1 in 2.6M | 10 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3as Josta | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Josta | 6 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Josta | 2 |
224 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kosta Khetagurovb. 1859RUnot in their usual nameOssetian poet (1859-1906)
- Konstantin Slanovb. 1926RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor (1926–1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Khosta have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 224 people named Josta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Khosta most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Khosta itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 77 thousand people named Josta.
- How common is the name Khosta?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 224 people named Josta, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Khosta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khostaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Khosta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.