Kossi
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kossi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Togo, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Swedish gosse.
- TGTogo1 in 82◐
- FRFrance1 in 283K
- USUnited States1 in 576K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈626 ●
- Sources
- 129 ●
- 1 in 265K ◐
across 6 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Kössi in FI Finland.
Meaning & origin●
Borrowing from Swedish gosse.
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #2 | 2,613 | 553 rec. | — | 77 | Kossi | 41 |
| FR France | — | 1,864 | 2K rec. | — | 15 | Kossi | 129 |
| US United States | — | 578 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 576K | 578 | Kossi | 83 |
| BE Belgium | — | 197 | 242 rec. | — | 18 | Kossi | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 192 | 391 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | 162 | 275 rec. | — | listed | Kossi | 36 |
| GH Ghana | #988 | 85 | 109 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 70 | 64 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 19 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 62 | 69 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 12 |
| BJ Benin | #202 | 57 | 40 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 45 | 54 rec. | — | — | Kossi | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | 21 | 17 rec. | 1 in 265K | 249 | Kössi | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French4.4K50%
- English2.3K26%
- Finnish4255%
- Swahili2483%
- German1902%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 4,411 | 50% |
| English | 2,317 | 26% |
| Finnish | 425 | 5% |
| Swahili | 248 | 3% |
| German | 190 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kossi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of koss
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1991 | 15 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 6 years between 1921–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kossi Assoub. 1958TGTogolese artist
- Kossi Lamadokoub. 1975TGpolitician in Togo
- Kossi Aguessyb. 1977TGTogolese industrial artist and designer
- Kossi Agassab. 1978TGTogolese footballer
- Kossi Evenunye Videkeb. 1990TGcomputer scientist
- Prince Segbefiab. 1991TGnot in their usual namefootballer
- Kossi Koku AdjakloTGTogolese politician
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 25 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kossi?
- We estimate roughly 626 people bear Kossi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kossi have the most bearers?
- Kossi is most frequently recorded in Togo, where it is most often spelled kossi.
- How common is Kossi compared with other names?
- In Togo, Kossi is the 2nd most common given name of 1,116 given names recorded there.
- Is Kossi a male or female name?
- Kossi 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.
- What does the name Kossi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Swedish gosse.
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About this data
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, “Kossi” — the 2nd most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.