Coste
surname · Latin script
Meaning: short form of Constantine; first attested Coste de Widkale 1175
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 435K
- RORomania≈1 in 15K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
short form of Constantine; first attested Coste de Widkale 1175
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coste 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #242 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1.5K | Coste | 304 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Coste | 5 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Coste | 6 |
| RO Romania | #951 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Coste | 35 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Coste | 18 |
| US United States | — | 764 | 1 in 435K | 940 | Coste | 156 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Coste | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 161 | 1 in 52K | 161 | Coste | 32 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Coste is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of costa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lld, first-person singular present indicative of coster
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, side (of an object)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Costeb. 1668FRFrench theologian (1668-1747)
- Pascal Costeb. 1787FRFrench architect (1787-1879)
- Napoléon Costeb. 1805FRFrench composer (1805–1883)
- Émile Costeb. 1862FRFrench fencer (1862-1927)
- Charles Costeb. 1924FRFrench cyclist (1924–2025)
- Chris Costeb. 1973USAmerican baseball player
- Mélanie Costeb. 1976FRFrench pornographic actress
- Loaneb. 1986FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer-songwriter
- Florence Costeb. 1991FRFrench actress
- Alin Costeb. 1992RORomanian swimmer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 940 | #27,194 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Coste mean, and where does it come from?
- short form of Constantine; first attested Coste de Widkale 1175 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Coste?
- In the etymology graph, Costa and Costo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Coste?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔst/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Coste have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Coste in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coste.
- How common is the name Coste?
- In the United States, the national register counted 764 people named Coste in 2010, about 1 in 435 thousand residents.
- How common is Coste compared with other names?
- In France, Coste is the 242nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/costeThe 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, “Coste” — the 242nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.