Côsta
surname · Latin script
Côsta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
- UYUruguay1 in 179(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- 1 in 179 (inferred from the name graph)
38,265 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Costa in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.
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)- Old Galician-Portuguesecosta(measured from records)
- Latincosta(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*kost-(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Côsta 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 | #988 | 38,265 | 1 in 8.7K | 38K | Costa | 466 |
| ES Spain | — | 27,815 | 1 in 1.8K | 28K | Costa | 109 |
| AR Argentina | — | 22,404 | 1 in 2K | 22K | — | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 18,928 | 1 in 179 | 19K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | #508 | 4,565 | 1 in 1.8K | 4.6K | Costa | 59 |
38,265 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Côsta mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Côsta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Côsta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled costa.
- Where is Côsta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Côsta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 179 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Côsta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 38,265 people named Côsta in 2010, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Côsta compared with other names?
- In the United States, Côsta is the 988th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%B4staThe 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, “Côsta” — the 988th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.