Kousa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kousa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a type of richly decorated drinking vessel, made of wood, with handles on both sides.
- FIFinland1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 10K
- NONorway1 in 130K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a type of richly decorated drinking vessel, made of wood, with handles on both sides
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kousa 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Keijo Kousab. 1959FIFinnish association football player
- Mikko Kousab. 1988FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Tuuli KousaFIFinnish politician
- Youssef A. KousaUSphysician-scientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 825 | #2,235 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 370 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 65 | #10,174 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,211 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,195 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kousa mean, and where does it come from?
- a type of richly decorated drinking vessel, made of wood, with handles on both sides Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kousa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Kousa in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kousa.
- Where is Kousa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kousa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though Syria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kousa?
- In Finland, the national register counted 825 people named Kousa, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
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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, “Kousa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.