Kosar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Косарь in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Косар in UA Ukraine and Cozar in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

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◐

Kosar is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi surname12K records spelled Kosar7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Koşar, Košař, Kosár, Kosař

• Croatian surname1.8K records spelled Kosar28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Pakistan, United States, India

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

  Also written Košar, Koşar, Koshar, Косар, Kosãr

• Bangla surname1.7K records spelled Kosar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom

  Also written Koşar

• a separate surname1.6K records spelled Kosar7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Türkiye

  Also written Koşar, Koŝar, Košař, Kosař, Kos̲ar

• Indonesian surname1.3K records spelled Kosar4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Indonesia

  Also written Koşar

• Spanish surname803 records spelled Kosar10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Türkiye, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Koşar, Košar, Košař, Kosár, Kosař

• English surname542 records spelled Kosar49 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Germany, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, French

  Also written Koza, Kosa, Kossa, Heinrichsdorf, Koşar

• Swahili surname495 records spelled Kosar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Pakistan, India

  Also written Koşar

34 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●

Kosar 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.

• from kosar, koser ‘beehive’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made skeps or produced and sold honey.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from the southern Slavic loanword kosar ‘basket’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Bernie, football player

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Russian, "knife."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of kosa

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 2000–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mykola Kosarb. 1897UASoviet poet (1897–1945)
• Mona Kosar Abdib. 1901USAmerican multimedia journalist
• Fritz Kosarb. 1939DEGerman association football player
• Scott Kosarb. 1963USAmerican screenwriter
• Bernie Kosarb. 1963USAmerican football player
• Kevin R. Kosarb. 1970USAmerican political scientist
• Tomaž Kosarb. 1978SIresearcher
• Olga KosarSIresearcher
• Ercan KoşarTRTurkish film director

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kosar?

We estimate roughly 6.1 thousand people bear Kosar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.

In which country does Kosar have the most bearers?

Kosar is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled косар.

Where is Kosar most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kosar is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.

What does the name Kosar mean?

Recorded meaning: from an agent noun derivative of kosa ‘scythe’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of sickles and scythes or a metonymic occupational name for a reaper.