Koški
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Koški is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *koski, from Proto-Uralic *kośke.
- FIFinland1 in 385(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- SESweden1 in 33K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)
14,489 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koski in FI Finland, US United States.
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)
- Proto-Finnic*koski(measured from records)
- Proto-Uralic*kośke(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic *koski, from Proto-Uralic *kośke.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koški 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.
14,489 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 250 | #3,302 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 231 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Koški mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *koski, from Proto-Uralic *kośke. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Koški have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Koški, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koski.
- Where is Koški most common?
- Koški is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 385 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Koški?
- In Finland, the national register counted 14,489 people named Koški, about 1 in 385 residents.
What do you want to know about Koški?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ko%C5%A1kiThe 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, “Koški”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.