Küst
surname · Latin script
Küst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’. 2. from the German personal name Kunst 2 or 3.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- AOAngola≈1 in 187K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
321 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kust in US United States, NL Netherlands, NG Nigeria and Kuest in PL Poland, AO Angola.
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)
1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’. 2. from the German personal name Kunst 2 or 3.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Küst 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 321 | 1 in 1M | 336 | Kust | 135 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 831K | — | Kust | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 249 | 1 in 17K | 249 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Küst | 30 |
| AO Angola | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Kuest | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Kust | 16 |
| PL Poland | 68 | 1 in 563K | 37 | Kuest | 1 |
321 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Küst 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 Luxembourgish, coast
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Küst mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’. 2. from the German personal name Kunst 2 or 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Küst have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 321 people named Küst, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kust.
- Where is Küst most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Küst is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Küst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 321 people named Küst in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Küst?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BCstThe 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, “Küst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.