as a Last Name
- 40,576
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Costa
Meaning & Origins
Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, and southern French: 1. topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or river bank, or on the coast (ultimately from Latin costa ‘rib’, ‘side’, ‘flank’, also used in a transferred topographical sense), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named Costa or named with this word. 2. of Greek origin (see Costas).
| 861st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 40,576
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Costa per capita
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