Costa

At the 2020 census, 38,406 Americans bore the surname Costa — 890th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,783.

By the numbers

People: 38,406
Rank: 890th
How common: 1 in 7,783
Per 100,000: 12.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Romance languages

From pan-roa Costa (“coast”) (Portuguese Costa, Galician Costa, Spanish Costa, Catalan Costa, Occitan Costa, French Costa, Italian Costa), from Latin costa (“rib; side”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Costa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Hispanic or Latino 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Costa

Diego Costa (born 1988)Brazilian association football player
Douglas Costa (born 1990)Brazilian association football player
Rui Costa (born 1972)Portuguese footballer
Costa-Gavras (born 1933)Greek-French film director
Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa (born 1982)Brazilian footballer
Ricardo Costa (born 1981)Portuguese footballer
Lucio Costa (1902–1998)Brazilian architect
Diogo Costa (born 1999)Portuguese footballer

People named Costa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Costa

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.