Kostis
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kostis is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Greek, written in the Latin script.
- BBBarbados1 in 88K◐
- PRPuerto Rico1 in 239K
- GYGuyana1 in 240K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈153 ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 651K ◐
across 2 countries
1.4K records
Official registry-verified
Belgium
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 135 | 965 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | 150 | Kostis | 89 |
| GB United Kingdom | 87 | 111 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 10 |
| CA Canada | 70 | 72 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 18 |
| AU Australia | 63 | 67 rec. | — | 1 | Kostis | 15 |
| DE Germany | 60 | 96 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 24 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 0 rec. | 1 in 651K | 18 | Kostis | 1 |
| BB Barbados | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 11 | 12 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 1 |
| ES Spain | 10 | 11 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 3 |
| PR Puerto Rico | 7 | 17 rec. | — | — | Kostis | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 135 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.5M). 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●
- English1.2K65%
- Greek31818%
- German975%
- French453%
- Spanish292%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,153 | 65% |
| Greek | 318 | 18% |
| German | 97 | 5% |
| French | 45 | 3% |
| Spanish | 29 | 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●
Kostis 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 Esperanto, past 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.
Notable people with this name●
- Tasos Kostisb. 1951GRGreek actor
- Christos Kostisb. 1972GRGreek footballer
- Patrikios Kostisb. 1980GRGreek actor
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 125 | #126,400 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 18 | #51,232 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1955 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 8 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kostis?
- We estimate roughly 153 people bear Kostis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kostis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 135 people bear Kostis in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kostis.
Query this name via API
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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, “Kostis”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.