Kossa

surname · French · Latin script

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

Kossa is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 6.5K◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 26K
  • DEGermany1 in 60K

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

≈6.9K ●

across 15 countries

Sources
195 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.6K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

KozaLatin · English●15K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Koza in US United States, PL Poland, DE Germany and 9 more, Kosa in SY Syria, EG Egypt, CH Switzerland and 2 more and Kosar in SA Saudi Arabia, PK Pakistan.

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

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

Where in the world●

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

Where Kossa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—3,701△11 rec.1 in 10K3.7KKoza1
CI Côte d’Ivoire#5872,89763 rec.—958Kossa8
DE Germany—1,8021.6K rec.—listedKoza74
US United States—1,46918K rec.1 in 226K1.5KKoza195
GB United Kingdom—1,2121.2K rec.——Koza32
ZA South Africa—1,1811.2K rec.——Koza21
CA Canada—485486 rec.——Koza32
AU Australia—478508 rec.—1Koza28
CZ Czechia—4710 rec.1 in 23K474—1
IN India—371△121 rec.1 in 3.6M371Koza26
SI Slovenia—277△1 rec.1 in 7.6K277—1
AT Austria—226146 rec.—6Koza29

Roughly 3.7K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 10K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • French2.4K41%
  • English1.9K32%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)5629%
  • Polish2144%
  • Swahili1893%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French2,44041%
English1,89332%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)5629%
Polish2144%
Swahili1893%

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◐

Kossa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname307 records spelled Kossa9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Косса, Cossa, Кошша

  • Hungarian surname66 records spelled Kossa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Kóssa

  • Czech surname25 records spelled Kossa4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Košša

30 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●

Kossa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In vot, askew, diagonally

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

  • In Swedish, a cow

    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●

180018501900195020002050Sámuel Magyary-Kossa, b. 1849István Magyary-Kossa, b. 1856Géza Magyary-Kossa, b. 1859Gyula Magyary-Kossa, b. 1865Aladár Magyary-Kossa, b. 1901István Kossa, b. 1904Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, b. 2002

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 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kossa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—958#550
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010104#156,044
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—38#126,822
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202634—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—34#64,315
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202632—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—32#67,331
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19919—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19615—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19515—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19814—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kossa?
We estimate roughly 6.9 thousand people bear Kossa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Kossa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Kossa in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled koza.
How common is Kossa compared with other names?
In Côte d’Ivoire, Kossa is the 587th most common surname of 19,557 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kossa” — the 587th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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