Costel

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Costel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 133◐
  • ITItaly1 in 19K
  • ESSpain1 in 36K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.0K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
96 ●

14K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Costel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#26236,6194.2K rec.—76KCostel93
IT Italy—2,6973.4K rec.——Costel49
GB United Kingdom—1,457988 rec.——Costel46
ES Spain—1,3991.4K rec.1 in 36K1.5KCostel49
DE Germany—725868 rec.—1Costel52
BE Belgium—218227 rec.——Costel16
NL Netherlands—188196 rec.—listedCostel13
US United States—1711.7K rec.1 in 1.9M171Costel96
MD Moldova#502140△52 rec.1 in 24K140Costel15
AT Austria—115110 rec.——Costel14
SE Sweden—111△16 rec.1 in 92K111—12
CA Canada—9288 rec.——Costel29

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian152K59%
  • English78K30%
  • Romanian13K5%
  • Spanish7K3%
  • French2.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian152,42159%
English78,48330%
Romanian13,1475%
Spanish6,9983%
French2,3721%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Costel is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5.5K records spelled Costel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Romania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Costél

49 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.

Over time●

020406020102015202059 · 2019

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Costel in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2007–2020
Yearrecords
200712
200817
200921
201024
201127
201232
201331
201434
201541
201646
201752
201857
201959
202057

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 14 years between 2007–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Costel Constantin, b. 1942Costel Orac, b. 1959Costel Câmpeanu, b. 1965Costel Grasu, b. 1967Costel Cașcaval, b. 1970Costel Enache, b. 1973Costel Mutescu, b. 1974Costel Busuioc, b. 1974Costel Mozacu, b. 1976Costel Pantilimon, b. 1987

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●

Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Costel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot202276K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names202276K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#937
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.4K#2,264
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—246#4,124
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020171#42,079
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—157#3,983
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—140#799
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—111#7,967
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—86#1,599
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202679#2,425
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201959—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Costel?
We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Costel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Costel have the most bearers?
Costel is most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is most often spelled costel.
How common is Costel compared with other names?
In Romania, Costel is the 26th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Costel a male or female name?
Costel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Costel” — the 26th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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