Kostova

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/koʊstoʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kostova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 804(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 88Kas Костова
  • RURussia≈1 in 198Kas Костова

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 Kostova 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,700 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
112 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 804 (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KostovaLatin(measured from records)
КостоваCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Костова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, MD Moldova.

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 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kostova 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.

Where Kostova is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#66≈8,700 est.≈1 in 804—Kostova112
MK North Macedonia#1351,182as Костова1 in 1.8K1.2KKostova16
RU Russia—≈720 est.≈1 in 198K—Костова101
UA Ukraine—≈500 est.≈1 in 88K—Костова30
IT Italy—≈340 est.≈1 in 184K—Kostova10
ES Spain—3001 in 167K300Kostova35
MD Moldova—≈110 est.≈1 in 31K—Костова2
CZ Czechia—1031 in 104K103Kostova16

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: State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kostova is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Kosťová, Koštová

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kostová, Kosťová, Koštová

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Italy

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Koştova

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Κοστοβα

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Košťova

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

198019902000Mira, b. 1983Dimana, b. 1984Boyanka Kostova, b. 1993
  • Mirab. 1983BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pop-folk singer and model
  • Dimanab. 1984BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer
  • Boyanka Kostovab. 1993AZBulgarian weightlifter
  • Radost KostovaBGBulgarian actress

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)

FormalУважаеми(а) Kostova,Dear Kostova, (English)
InformalУважаеми(а) Kostova,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Kostova
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—300#12,046
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—300#12,040
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5#122,303
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—5#20,754

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Kostova?
A machine transcription gives /koʊstoʊvə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
In which country does Kostova have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Kostova in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kostova.
How common is the name Kostova?
In Spain, the national register counted 300 people named Kostova, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
How common is Kostova compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Kostova is the 66th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kostova” — the 66th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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