Papacostas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Papacostas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 49Kas Papakostas(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.8Mas Papakostas
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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 Papacostas 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 named Papakostas, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Papakostas in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden and 1 more, Papakosta in CY Cyprus, DE Germany and Παπακωστας in GR Greece.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Papacostas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #921 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 24 | Παπακωστας | 58 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Papakostas | 75 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Papakosta | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 23 | Papakostas | 15 |
| CY Cyprus | #628 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Papakosta | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Papakostas | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8as Papakostas | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Papakostas | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Papacostas | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ioannis Costasb. 1868GRnot in their usual nameGreek revolutionary and benefactor
- Seraphim Papakostasb. 1892GRGreek writer
- Kostas Papacostasb. 1939CYCypriot politician
- Giannis Papakostasb. 1939GREmeritus professor of Greek Philology in the University of Athens
- Seraphim Papakostasb. 1959GRGreek bishop
- Yannis Papakostasb. 1968GRGreek football manager
- Lábros Papakóstasb. 1969GRGreek athlete
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 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 23 | #82,763 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #130,733 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Papacostas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 217 people named Papakostas in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Papacostas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Papacostas is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 3.9 million people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Papacostas?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Papacostas in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
- How common is Papacostas compared with other names?
- In Greece, Papacostas is the 921st most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papacostasThe 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, “Papacostas” — the 921st most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.