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Kosta

#7,978 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kosta has been given to 417 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #7,978 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Kosta, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kosta over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kosta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kosta means

Kosta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kosta is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Kosta is pronounced /kôsta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 417 boys were recorded with the name Kosta between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,901 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,588 in 2020 to #7,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,816 in 2015 to #7,978 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Kosta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,978
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kosta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kosta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kostas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kosta was born before 2011 — so the typical Kosta is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
417
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Kosta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,420
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,390
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,162
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.5%
Peak was 2022 (23)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,901
1971

Spellings of Kosta

Kosta is not the most common spelling — Koa is, with 24.3% against Kosta's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kosta is used

Across 1910–2025, Kosta was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,122,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kosta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kosta around the world

Where Kosta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1973–2025
    #4,634
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kosta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,390
Best rank ever
#2,901
1971
Peak year
2022
23 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
417
Count in 2025
10

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kosta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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