Kozma
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: from the personal name Kosma (Polish Kozma), vernacular forms of Greek Kosmas (see Cosma)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊzmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kozma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 91st most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 257K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 40Kas Козьма
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 Kozma 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Козьма in UA Ukraine.
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)
from the personal name Kosma (Polish Kozma), vernacular forms of Greek Kosmas (see Cosma).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kozma is read(measured from records)
Kozma is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English51%
Greek: 'decoration'
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- Hungarian20%
from the personal name Kosma (Polish Kozma), vernacular forms of Greek Kosmas (see Cosma).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
possibly also Greek (Kozmas): variant of Kosmas (see Cosma 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
ornamental adoption of the Slavic personal name (see 2).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of Kozmds, vernacular form of CosMA.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Ukrainian7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kozma in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kozma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Kozma | 1 |
| HU Hungary | #91 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 12K | Kozma | 127 |
| US United States | — | 1,294 | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Kozma | 92 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Козьма | 19 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Kozma | 31 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Kozma | 30 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 480 | — | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Kozma 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 Russian, var of Kuz'ma.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Lajos Kozmab. 1884HUarchitect (1884–1948)
- Miklós Kozmab. 1884HUHungarian officer and politician (1884-1941)
- László Kozmab. 1902HUHungarian engineer (1902-1983)
- Joseph Kosmab. 1905HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-French composer (1905–1969)
- Július Kozmab. 1929SKCzechoslovak chess player (1929-2009)
- István Kozmab. 1939HUOlympic wrestler (1939–1970)
- Mihály Kozmab. 1949HUHungarian football player (born 1949)
- György Kozmab. 1954HUHungarian writer, graphic artist, university professor
- Pete Kozmab. 1988USAmerican baseball player
- Dominik Kozmab. 1991HUHungarian swimmer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Kozma mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Kosma (Polish Kozma), vernacular forms of Greek Kosmas (see Cosma). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kozma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊzmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kozma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Kozma in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kozma.
- How common is the name Kozma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,294 people named Kozma in 2010, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
- How common is Kozma compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Kozma is the 91st most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kozma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kozmaThe 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, “Kozma” — the 91st most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.