Costard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME costard ‘a prominently ribbed apple, a kind of large apple’; later also used of the head; first attested Alan filius Costard c1160
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔstaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Costard is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- DEGermany
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ME costard ‘a prominently ribbed apple, a kind of large apple’; later also used of the head; first attested Alan filius Costard c1160
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- FRFrance
- BRBrazil
- GBUnited Kingdom
- DEGermany
- CACanada
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Costard 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 French, suit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A large cooking apple.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- George Costardb. 1710GBEnglish writer on ancient astronomy
- Roger Costardb. 1950FRFrench local politician
- Serge Costardb. 1965FRFrench local politician
- Manon Costardb. 1991FRwater skier
- CostardFRFrench painter
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 216 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 200 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 194 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 176 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 170 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 165 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 148 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Costard mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME costard ‘a prominently ribbed apple, a kind of large apple’; later also used of the head; first attested Alan filius Costard c1160 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Costard?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔstaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Costard have the most bearers?
- Costard is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Costard?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/costardThe 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, “Costard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.