Kossi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kossi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Swedish gosse.
- TGTogo≈1 in 143(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 570K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 14K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowing from Swedish gosse.
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kossi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #2 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 77 | Kossi | 51 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kossi | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kossi | 19 |
| BJ Benin | #232 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kossi | 20 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 1 in 570K | 578 | Kossi | 104 |
| GH Ghana | #894 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Kossi | 16 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Kossi | 12 |
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: Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Kossi 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 Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of koss
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kossi Assoub. 1958TGTogolese artist
- Kossi Lamadokoub. 1975TGpolitician in Togo
- Kossi Aguessyb. 1977TGTogolese industrial artist and designer
- Kossi Agassab. 1978TGTogolese footballer
- Kossi Evenunye Videkeb. 1990TGcomputer scientist
- Prince Segbefiab. 1991TGnot in their usual namefootballer
- Kossi Koku AdjakloTGTogolese politician
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 578 | #18,452 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 77 | #1 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #18,452 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kossi mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowing from Swedish gosse. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Kossi a male or female name?
- Kossi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kossi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Kossi in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kossi.
- How common is the name Kossi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Kossi in 2020, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
- How common is Kossi compared with other names?
- In Togo, Kossi is the 2nd most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kossiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kossi” — the 2nd most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.