Kosko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a squint-eyed person, from Ukrainian kosyj ‘squint’ -i- -ko, suffix of Ukrainian surnames
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊskoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kosko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 365K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 126K
- ATAustria≈1 in 134K
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
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
912 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for a squint-eyed person, from Ukrainian kosyj ‘squint’ -i- -ko, suffix of Ukrainian surnames.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kosko 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 | 912 | 1 in 365K | 925 | Kosko | 191 |
| PL Poland | 304 | 1 in 126K | 163 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Kosko | 9 |
| IT Italy | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Kosko | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Kosko | 7 |
| NO Norway | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Kosko | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Kosko | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 7 | — | 2 |
912 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Kosko is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Greek (Koskos); nickname for a bony person, from Albanian koske ‘bone’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Serbo-Croatian, vocative singular of koska
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zag, finger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( A Apend ), kozko . Pequeño, menudo . Cf. Or Eus 15: An da talogillea, Eratsungo Koxko . "El Menudo" (v. tbn. 231). v. koskor. Galtzadunik balitza, naiz aundi naiz kozko, / betor . "Grande o chico" . Or Eus 33.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 925 | #25,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 912 | #26,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 856 | #29,416 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 163 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 163 | #19,841 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 141 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 141 | #22,167 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kosko mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a squint-eyed person, from Ukrainian kosyj ‘squint’ -i- -ko, suffix of Ukrainian surnames. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kosko?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊskoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kosko have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 912 people named Kosko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kosko.
- Where is Kosko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kosko is densest in Poland — about 1 in 126 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kosko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 912 people named Kosko in 2010, about 1 in 365 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koskoThe 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, “Kosko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.