Cosme

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmas

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

/koʃmɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cosme is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 145K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 6K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 11K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

35,100 people, 2022

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmas

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cosme is read(measured from records)

Cosme is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Portuguese53%

    a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish36%

    griego Kosmás, ‘adornado’

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English6.5%

    Greek; order, harmony.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Cosme 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 Cosme is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—35,1001 in 6K43K—5
VE Venezuela—2,6661 in 11K2.7K—2
US United States—2,2951 in 145K5.6KCosme260
ES Spain—1,4891 in 34K1.5KCosme30
EC Ecuador—1,3121 in 13K1.3K—6
UY Uruguay—1571 in 22K157——
PR Puerto Rico#417———Cosme22

35,100 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Cosme is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Also written Cosmè, Cosmé

  • German given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Cösme, Coesme

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Indonesia

    Also written Cosmé

64 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cosme 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.

  • Agornado

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

500100015002000Cosmas of Maiuma, b. 675Cosmas of Prague, b. 1045Cosmas I of Constantinople, b. 1050Cosmas II Atticus, b. 1050Cosme de Torrès, b. 1510Agustín I of Mexico, b. 1783Cosme Damião, b. 1885Kuzebay Gerd, b. 1898Antonio Imbert Barrera, b. 1920

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)

InformalOlá Cosme,Hi Cosme, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 51 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Cosme
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.6K#5,972
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.4K#6,313
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,420
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,165
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,163
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—85—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Cosme mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cosme?
A machine transcription gives /koʃmɛ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
Is Cosme a male or female name?
Cosme 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.
What are other forms of the name Cosme?
In the etymology graph, Cosmo and Côme are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Cosme have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Cosme, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Cosme most common?
Cosme is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cosme?
In Brazil, the national register counted 35,100 people named Cosme in 2022, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
How common is Cosme compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Cosme is the 417th most common given name of 1,886 given names 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, “Cosme” — the 417th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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