Kust

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kust is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 17K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 187K

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.

United States (measured from records)

321 people, 2010

Sources
135 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kuest in PL Poland, AO Angola and Küst in DE Germany.

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)

1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’. 2. from the German personal name Kunst 2 or 3.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kust 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.

Where Kust is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3211 in 1M336Kust135
NG Nigeria≈260 est.≈1 in 831K—Kust2
HR Croatia2491 in 17K249——
DE Germany≈220 est.≈1 in 363K—Küst30
AO Angola≈170 est.≈1 in 187K—Kuest1
NL Netherlands≈77 est.≈1 in 224K—Kust16
PL Poland681 in 563K37Kuest1

321 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kust is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Kušt

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Kůst

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Куст

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Brazil, Russia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Küst, Kušt

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Kušt, Küst

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kůst, Küst, Kušt

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Kušt

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kust is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Vasko Kust, peasant. 1500.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In izh, elative singular of kuka: whence?

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, coast (shoreline)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, where ... from

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, the shoreline

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Kust come from?
1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’. 2. from the German personal name Kunst 2 or 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Kust mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. dialect variant of a nickname from Czech kust, a dialect form of kost ‘bone’.
In which country does Kust have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 321 people named Kust, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kust.
Where is Kust most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kust is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kust?
In the United States, the national register counted 321 people named Kust in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million 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, “Kust”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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