Kosky

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 385as Koski(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 17Kas Koški
  • SESweden1 in 33Kas Koski

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kosky 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.

Finland (measured from records)

14,489 named Koski

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland, as Koski

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

КошкиCyrillic(measured from records)
KoskiLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Коски in FI Finland and Koski in 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)

Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kosky 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 Kosky is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland14,489as Koski1 in 38514KКоски6
US United States5,288as Koski1 in 63K5.7KKoski8
SE Sweden311as Koski1 in 33K311——
HR Croatia250as Koški1 in 17K250——
BR Brazil194as Koski1 in 1.1M194——
NO Norway22as Koski1 in 249K22——

14,489 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling koski. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

195019601970Lynne Kosky, b. 1958Barrie Kosky, b. 1967Berrie Kosky, b. 1967

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)

Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kosky
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000630#34,071
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010608#36,736
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020593#39,947
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—64#87,998
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Kosky mean, and where does it come from?
Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Kosky have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Koski, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kosky most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Kosky itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 385 people named Koski.
How common is the name Kosky?
In Finland, the national register counted 14,489 people named Koski, about 1 in 385 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, “Kosky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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