Köse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: naturally beardless or thin-bearded
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Köse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Laos it is the 2nd most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 25as Josef(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 103as Jose
- NGNigeria≈1 in 207as Joseph
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Köse 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #46 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 688 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25 (inferred from the name graph)
5,164,752 named Jose, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Josef
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Joseph in US United States, NG Nigeria, Josep in BR Brazil, ES Spain, Jose in EC Ecuador, LA Laos and Josef in CZ Czechia.
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)
naturally beardless or thin-bearded
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Köse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 5,164,752as Jose | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | Josep | 44 |
| US United States | #12 | 1,600,667as Joseph | 1 in 208 | 1.6M | Joseph | 688 |
| NG Nigeria | #15 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 207 | — | Joseph | 177 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 590,465as Jose | 1 in 29 | 590K | Jose | 68 |
| ES Spain | #92 | 487,678as Jose | 1 in 103 | 532K | Josep | 226 |
| CZ Czechia | #9 | 422,634as Josef | 1 in 25 | 423K | Josef | 184 |
| HN Honduras | — | 170,919as José | 1 in 54 | 171K | Joeseph | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 127,526as Jose | 1 in 40 | 128K | — | 21 |
| LA Laos | #2 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 248 | — | Jose | 25 |
5,164,752 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling jose. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; RNP — cumulative registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Köse 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 Turkish, 1. Bıyığı sakalı çıkmayan erkek. 2. Cılız, bodur. 3. Yeni evlenmiş erkek, güvey.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Muharrem Köseb. 1901TRTurkish military officer and statesperson
- Nursel Köseb. 1961TRTurkish-German actor and writer (born 1961)
- Serkan Köseb. 1976SESwedish politician
- Zeynep Köseb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Tevfik Köseb. 1988DETurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Ramazan Köseb. 1988TRTurkish association football player (born 1988)
- Bahattin Köseb. 1990DETurkish association football player (born 1990)
- İbrahim Köseb. 1992FITurkish-Finnish footballer (born 1992)
- Onuray Köseb. 1996FITurkish-Finnish footballer (born 1996)
- İsmail Köseb. 1996TRTurkish association football player (born 1968)
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #163,193 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Köse mean, and where does it come from?
- naturally beardless or thin-bearded Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Köse have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 million people named Jose, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Köse most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Köse itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 25 people named Josef.
- How common is the name Köse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,164,752 people named Jose in 2022, about 1 in 41 residents.
- How common is Köse compared with other names?
- In Laos, Köse is the 2nd most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6seThe 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, “Köse” — the 2nd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.