Kostiv
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɒstɪv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kostiv is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.3Kas Костів(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 256Kas Костев
- PLPoland1 in 57K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kostiv 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 named Костів, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Костев in RU Russia, EE Estonia, Костів in UA Ukraine and Костив in KZ Kazakhstan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kostiv 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
- Maria Kostiv-Kossakivnab. 1876UAactor
- Vasyl Verkhovynetsb. 1880UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian dancer and choreographer (1880–1938)
- Natalia Kostiv-Saramahab. 1905UAactor
- Hanna Kostiv-Huskab. 1947UAUkrainian poet, writer (*1947)
- Sviatoslav Kostivb. 1978UAUkrainian physician
- Yurii Kostivb. 1989UAUkrainian military personnel
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 343 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 343 | #9,689 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 333 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 333 | #9,782 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #35,187 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #34,849 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,900 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kostiv?
- A machine transcription gives /kɒstɪv/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kostiv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Костів in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kostiv most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kostiv is densest in Poland — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kostiv?
- In Poland, the national register counted 676 people named Kostiv in 2026, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Kostiv compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kostiv is the 908th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kostiv?
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/kostivThe 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, “Kostiv” — the 908th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.