Kosta
Kosta reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 4,442, and has been recorded 417 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 400 Kostas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Kosta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 417
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 4,442nd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Kostas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 417 babies given the name since 1960, about 400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Kostas
- Kosta Khetagurov (1859–1906)Ossetian poet
- Kosta Barbarouses (born 1990)New Zealand footballer
- Kosta Koufos (born 1989)Greek-American basketball player
- Kosta Pećanac (1879–1944)Serbian Chetnik commander
- Kosta Tomašević (1923–1976)Serbian footballer
- Kosta Perović (born 1985)Serbian basketball player
- Kosta Nedeljković (born 2005)Serbian association football player
- Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898)Serbian poet
People named Kosta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kosta is most common
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Kosta peaked:
Kosta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Kosta | 110 | 2,213th |
| Switzerland boys | Kosta | 106 | 716th |
| Belgium boys | Kosta | 5 | 1,395th |
| England and Wales boys | Kosta | 3 | 4,810th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kosta: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kosta | 90 | 0.007% | 514th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kosta | 14 | 0.003% | 527th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Kosta | 2 | 0.003% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Kosta is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.