Cosenza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Cosenza (town)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌkoʊˈsɛnzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cosenza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 64K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 140K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,860 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cosenza (a city and province of Calabria, Italy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Cosenza is read(measured from records)
Cosenza is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 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.
- English54%
province. Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish18%
Cosenza (town)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.2%
Cosenza (a city and province of Calabria, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.4%
Cosenza (a town and province of Calabria, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
oriundo da cidade de Cosenza; de forma latina Consentia, talvez 'concórdia' ou 'confluência'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cosenza in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Cosenza 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 | 1,860 | 1 in 179K | 1.9K | Cosenza | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 911 | 1 in 232K | 911 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 713 | 1 in 64K | 713 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 84 | 1 in 40K | 84 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | — | 1 |
1,860 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni Carlo Cosenzab. 1765ITItalian dramatist
- Giuseppe Cosenzab. 1788ITItalian archbishop
- Giovanni Gargano Cosenzab. 1869Italian literary scholar (1869-)
- Luigi Cosenzab. 1905ITItalian politician and engineer (1905–1984)
- Paolo Cosenzab. 1929ITItalian philosophy historian (1929-2011)
- Matteo Cosenzab. 1949ITItalian journalist
- Cesare Cosenzab. 1960CHSwiss footballer
- Giulia Cosenzab. 1968ITItalian politician
- Biagio Cosenzab. 1982ITItalian computer scientist
- Giovanna CosenzaITItalian semiotician
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,775 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 911 | #10,119 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 713 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 84 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 60 | #16,209 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Cosenza come from?
- Cosenza (a city and province of Calabria, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cosenza?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌkoʊˈsɛnzə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cosenza mean?
- In Spanish, Cosenza (town)
- In which country does Cosenza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Cosenza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cosenza.
- Where is Cosenza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cosenza is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cosenza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,860 people named Cosenza in 2010, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cosenza?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cosenzaThe 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, “Cosenza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.