Costal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: costal (of or related to a rib)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kostal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Costal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 142K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 360K
- BRBrazil1 in 655K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 142K (inferred from the name graph)
351 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
costal (of or related to a rib)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Costal is read(measured from records)
Costal is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish40%
costal (of or related to a rib)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Costal in Portuguese.
- English17%
Pertaining to a rib.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Costal in French.
- Catalan8.9%
rib; costal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Costal 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.
351 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Costal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, valuable, precious, sumptuous, costly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, COSTÁL, -Ă, costali, -e, adj. Al coastei, care ține de coastă.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Anna Costal i Fornellsb. 1981ESSpanish musicologist
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 351 | #10,615 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 351 | #10,607 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 323 | #24,841 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Costal mean, and where does it come from?
- costal (of or related to a rib) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Costal?
- A machine transcription gives /kostal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Costal?
- In the etymology graph, Costa and Costas are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Costal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 351 people named Costal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled costal.
- Where is Costal most common?
- Costal is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 142 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Costal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 351 people named Costal, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/costalThe 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, “Costal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.