Kostić

surname · Latin script

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

/ko˨˦s̪t̪itɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kostić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Kosta (a given name) + -ić (“descendant of”), with the given name ultimately from Latin Cōnstantīnus, possibly via Greek Κώστας (Kóstas).

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 566(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.1K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 6.6K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
208 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 566 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KostićLatin(measured from records)
КостићCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kostic in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 1 more.

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)

Derivation of Kostić: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Kostić
  1. LatinCōnstantīnus(measured from records)
  2. GreekΚώσταςKóstas(measured from records)

From Kosta (a given name) + -ić (“descendant of”), with the given name ultimately from Latin Cōnstantīnus, possibly via Greek Κώστας (Kóstas).

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kostić 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 Kostić is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#21≈12,000 est.≈1 in 566listedKostić91
DE Germany—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 57K—Kostic94
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#220≈1,400 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Kostić11
AT Austria#410≈1,300 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Kostic58
CH Switzerland—8581 in 9.8K858Kostic22
HR Croatia#5586921 in 6.1K692Kostić32
SI Slovenia—4291 in 4.9K429Kostic6
ME Montenegro#88≈100 est.≈1 in 6K—Kostić19

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kostić is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Koštić, Kostic, Kostíc

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Serbia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Kostic, Kostič, Kostíc

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Argentina, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kostic, Koštić

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Belgium

    Also written Kostic, Koštić, Kostič

  • Ukrainian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Костич, Kostic, Kostich, Koštić

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Laza Kostić, b. 1841Boris Kostić, b. 1887Bora Kostić, b. 1930Branko Kostić, b. 1939Vladimir S. Kostić, b. 1953Miodrag Kostić, b. 1959Miloš Kostić, b. 1971Tanja Kostic, b. 1972Vuk Kostić, b. 1979Filip Kostić, b. 1992

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPoštovani Kostić,Dear Kostić, (English)
InformalPoštovani Kostić,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kostić
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021692#934
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021544—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—429#790

Reference works 4

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 Kostić mean, and where does it come from?
From Kosta (a given name) + -ić (“descendant of”), with the given name ultimately from Latin Cōnstantīnus, possibly via Greek Κώστας (Kóstas). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Kostić?
A machine transcription gives /ko˨˦s̪t̪itɕ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Kostić have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Kostić in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kostić.
How common is the name Kostić?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 858 people named Kostić in 2024, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
How common is Kostić compared with other names?
In Serbia, Kostić is the 21st most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kostić” — the 21st most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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