Kostas
Kostas or Costas is a Greek given name and surname. As a given name, it can be a hypocorism for Konstantinos (Constantine).
- Greek
- Lithuanian
Meaning & Origin of Kostas
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kostas or Costas is a Greek given name and surname. As a given name, it can be a hypocorism for Konstantinos (Constantine).
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Greek
- Lithuanian
The Story of Kostas
Kostas first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1961, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1974: 17 births, good for #2,358 nationwide. About 29% of every Kostas on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Kostas last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 10 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 365 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Kostas
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Kostas. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Costas
- Gus
- Konstadinos
- Konstantinas
- Konstantinos
- Kostakis
- Kostis
Names that sound like Kostas
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About the name Kostas
Kostas is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1961 and has accumulated 365 births in the dataset. Kostas's peak popularity came in 1974 when it ranked #2,358. Use the chart and map above to compare Kostas's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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