Cosenza

• Spanish:/koˈsensa/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Portuguese:/kuʃẽzɐ/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/koˈzɛn.t͡sa/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

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 name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish18%

  Cosenza (town)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese9.2%

  Cosenza (a city and province of Calabria, Italy)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Italian7.4%

  Cosenza (a town and province of Calabria, Italy)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  oriundo da cidade de Cosenza; de forma latina Consentia, talvez 'concórdia' ou 'confluência'

  as a name·Dicionário 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Cosenza is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Italy

  Also written Козенца

39 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.

• Giuseppe Cosenzab. 1788ITItalian archbishop
• Luigi Cosenzab. 1905ITItalian politician and engineer (1905–1984)
• Giulia Cosenzab. 1968ITItalian 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).

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Cosenza?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /koˈsensa/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kuʃẽzɐ/; in Italian /koˈzɛn.t͡sa/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Cosenza mean?

In Spanish, Cosenza (town)

Which countries have the most people with the surname Cosenza?

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. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.