Kość

surname · Latin script

Meaning: bone (composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates)

/kɔɕt͡ɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kość is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 44K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 268K
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

864 people, 2026

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kosc in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia.

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(measured from records)

bone (composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kość 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.

Where Kość is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland8641 in 44K437——
CZ Czechia401 in 268K40——
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
US United States——listedKosc73
CA Canada———Kosc27
AU Australia———Kosc8

864 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kość is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Košč, Kosc

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kosc

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kość is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In szl, bone

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Kość, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Kość
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026437—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—437#7,403
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026427—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—427#7,718

Reference works 3

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kość mean, and where does it come from?
bone (composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kość?
A machine transcription gives /kɔɕt͡ɕ/ (IPA) for Polish.
What are other forms of the name Kość?
In the etymology graph, Kostka is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Kość have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 864 people named Kość, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kość most common?
Kość is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kość?
In Poland, the national register counted 864 people named Kość in 2026, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.

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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, “Kość”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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