Kostal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from kost’dl ‘stalk’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɑstəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kostal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 749K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.8K
- SKSlovakia1 in 6.8K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,861 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Košťál in SK Slovakia.
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)nickname from kost’dl ‘stalk’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kostal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #700 | 1,861 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.9K | Kostal | 57 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kostal | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | #701 | 803 | 1 in 6.8K | 803 | Košťál | 35 |
| US United States | — | 444 | 1 in 749K | 459 | Kostal | 142 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Kostal | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Kostal | 19 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Kostal | 3 |
1,861 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling košťál. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Kostal 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, costly, expensive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, jute sack or bag
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)- Joseph William Kostalb. 1876USMajor League Baseball player
- Irwin Kostalb. 1911USAmerican musical arranger of films (1911–1994)
- Helmut Kostalb. 1944DEGerman entrepreneur
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 459 | #49,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 444 | #47,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 408 | #48,567 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #124,443 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4 | #21,303 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kostal mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from kost’dl ‘stalk’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kostal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑstəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kostal have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Kostal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kostal.
- Where is Kostal most common?
- Kostal is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kostal?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,861 people named Kostal, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kostal compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Kostal is the 700th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kostal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kostalThe 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, “Kostal” — the 700th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.