Kosty
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kosty is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably an Americanized spelling of Czech host’, a nickname meaning ‘bone’.
- HRCroatia1 in 325K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- RURussia≈1 in 132Mas Косты
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 Kosty 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325K (inferred from the name graph)
253 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Косты in RU Russia.
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)
Probably an Americanized spelling of Czech host’, a nickname meaning ‘bone’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kosty 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 253 | 1 in 1.3M | 283 | — | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 13 | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Косты | 21 |
| MD Moldova | — | — | 1 | — | — |
253 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 283 | #65,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 253 | #76,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 243 | #83,373 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,566 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kosty mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an Americanized spelling of Czech host’, a nickname meaning ‘bone’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kosty have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 253 people named Kosty, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kosty most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kosty is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 325 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kosty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 253 people named Kosty in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kostyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kosty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.