Kosky
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kosky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 385as Koski(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17Kas Koški
- SESweden1 in 33Kas Koski
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kosky itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)
14,489 named Koski
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Koski
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Коски in FI Finland and Koski in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kosky 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.
14,489 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling koski. 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Lynne Koskyb. 1958AUAustralian politician (1958-2014)
- Barrie Koskyb. 1967AUTheatre and opera director
- Berrie Koskyb. 1967AUdirector (1967-)
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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 630 | #34,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 608 | #36,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 593 | #39,947 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #87,998 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Kosky mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of Finnish Koski. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kosky?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kosky have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Koski, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kosky most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kosky itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 385 people named Koski.
- How common is the name Kosky?
- In Finland, the national register counted 14,489 people named Koski, about 1 in 385 residents.
What do you want to know about Kosky?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koskyThe 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, “Kosky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.