Costel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kostel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Costel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 902(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 13K
- ESSpain1 in 36K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 902 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Costel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #108 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | 76K | Costel | 104 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Costel | 49 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Costel | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,399 | 1 in 36K | 1.5K | Costel | 52 |
| FR France | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 20 | — | 2 |
| MD Moldova | — | 140 | 1 in 24K | 140 | — | 14 |
| IS Iceland | — | 21 | 1 in 17K | 21 | — | — |
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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); e-services.md — living population register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Costel Constantinb. 1942RORomanian actor
- Costel Oracb. 1959RORomanian footballer
- Costel Câmpeanub. 1965RORomanian footballer
- Costel Grasub. 1967ROathletics competitor
- Costel Cașcavalb. 1970RORomanian actor
- Costel Enacheb. 1973RORomanian footballer (born 1973)
- Costel Mutescub. 1974RORomanian rower
- Costel Busuiocb. 1974RORomanian singer
- Costel Mozacub. 1976RORomanian footballer
- Costel Pantilimonb. 1987RORomanian association football player
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)
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 42 | #50,853 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 42 | #50,051 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 17 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Costel?
- A machine transcription gives /kostel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Costel a male or female name?
- Costel 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 Costel?
- In the etymology graph, Dinu, Kostas and Kosta are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Constantin.
- In which country does Costel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Costel in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled costel.
- How common is the name Costel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,399 people named Costel, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Costel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Costel is the 108th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Costel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/costelThe 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, “Costel” — the 108th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.