Kostas
given name · Greek · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kostas is a given name, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Greek and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Kostas, a pet form of Konstantinos (see Constantine).
- CYCyprus1 in 70◐
- GRGreece1 in 1.9K
- DEGermany1 in 46K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈19K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 203 ●
- 1 in 70 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
39K records
Official registry-verified
Cyprus
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Κωστας in CY Cyprus.
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●
from the personal name Kostas, a pet form of Konstantinos (see Constantine).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | #11 | 18,198△ | 942 rec. | 1 in 70 | 18K | Κωστας | 81 |
| GR Greece | #60 | 16,645 | 11K rec. | — | 19 | Kostas | 170 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,662 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Kostas | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,984 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Kostas | 84 |
| AU Australia | — | 808 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Kostas | 80 |
| US United States | — | 733 | 17K rec. | 1 in 454K | 1.2K | Kostas | 203 |
| LT Lithuania | #380 | 599 | 278 rec. | — | listed | Kostas | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | 531 | 697 rec. | — | 1 | Kostas | 44 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 388 | 0 rec. | — | — | Kostas | 1 |
| FR France | — | 334 | 387 rec. | — | 14 | Kostas | 78 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 154 | — | 1 in 69K | 154 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 132△ | 36 rec. | 1 in 290K | 132 | Kostas | 18 |
Roughly 18K people in Cyprus bear this name (about 1 in 70). 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●
- Greek20K55%
- English6.9K19%
- German2.9K8%
- Czech7912%
- Lithuanian7572%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Greek | 19,847 | 55% |
| English | 6,922 | 19% |
| German | 2,864 | 8% |
| Czech | 791 | 2% |
| Lithuanian | 757 | 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●
Kostas 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 English, A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κώστας (Kóstas).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, present of kosti
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 |
|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 17 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 15 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Konstantinos Tsatsosb. 1899GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1899–1987)
- Konstantinos Karamanlisb. 1907GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician and lawyer (1907–1998), Prime Minister of Greece intermittently between 1955–80, President from 1980–85, 1990–95
- Konstantinos Stephanopoulosb. 1926GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic
- Costa-Gavrasb. 1933GRnot in their usual nameGreek-French film director (born 1933)
- Costas Simitisb. 1936GRnot in their usual nameGreek jurist, economist, academic and politician (1936–2025)
- Constantine II of Greeceb. 1940GRnot in their usual nameKing of Greece from 1964 to 1973 (1940–2023)
- Kostas Karamanlisb. 1956GRGreek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
- Konstantinos Tasoulasb. 1959GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician, President of Greece since 2025
- Kostas Katsouranisb. 1979GRGreek footballer
- Kostas Tsimikasb. 1996GRGreek association football player
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 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 733 | #15,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 394 | #52,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 388 | #50,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 386 | #57,050 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 154 | #1,077 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 138 | #6,212 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 132 | #1,614 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 132 | #1,716 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 77 | #1,158 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 77 | #1,090 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #13,700 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #12,491 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kostas?
- We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Kostas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kostas have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Kostas in Cyprus, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled κωστας.
- Where is Kostas most common?
- Kostas is densest in Cyprus, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 people carrying it.
- How common is Kostas compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Kostas is the 11th most common given name of 8,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Kostas a male or female name?
- Kostas 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 Kostas mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Kostas, a pet form of Konstantinos (see Constantine).
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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, “Kostas” — the 11th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.