Koso
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Kosonen.
- FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
- SYSyria≈1 in 131K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Kosonen.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koso 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Koso | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 496 | 1 in 11K | 496 | — | 2 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Koso | 2 |
| US United States | — | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 182 | Koso | 4 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Koso | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 12 | 1 in 352K | 17 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | #214 | — | — | — | Koso | 7 |
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 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
Koso is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, nominative singular of kosa (“container”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, A legendary place associated with the orisha Ṣàngó, it is believed to be where he Ṣàngó in his human form the King of Oyo hanged himself and became an orisha
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, Xhosa, Xhosan person (member of a Bantu people from South Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of kos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, rub palms of hands together, rub off, wash off stain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fud, stake, post (as for husking coconuts)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Viseyie Kosob. 1987INNaga Sepak Takraw player
- Netta Kosob. 1991FIFinnish 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 496 | #3,482 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 220 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 182 | #104,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 145 | #119,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 131 | #121,780 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12 | #29,134 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Koso mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Kosonen. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Koso?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊsoʊ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Koso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 689 people named Koso in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koso.
- Where is Koso most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koso is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Koso?
- In Finland, the national register counted 496 people named Koso, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Koso compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Koso is the 214th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kosoThe 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, “Koso” — the 214th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.