Costa

See also: costa, cósta, costá, costà, costâ, and cô ta

English

Alternative forms

• Costas, Dacosta, DaCosta, daCosta, da Costa, Da Costa, dalla Costa, Dalla Costa, dallaCosta, DallaCosta, Dallacosta

Etymology

From Romance (from Portuguese Costa, Galician Costa, Spanish Costa, Catalan Costa, Occitan Costa, French Costa, Italian Costa), from Latin costa.

Proper noun

Costa (plural Costas)

1. A surname from the Romance languages.
   • 2016, John Goulden, Michael Costa: England's First Conductor, →ISBN:

     Although Costa retained his contacts with the royal family, Gye was able to develop his own close relationship with the operaphile Prince of Wales, for whose mistress Pauline Lucca he occasionally rescheduled the programme.

   1. A surname from Italian.
      • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 82:

        Coccinelle, the flamboyant star of a female-impersonation revue at the Carrousel Club in Paris, recounted the saga of her physical transformation to Italiaan journalist Mario Costa.

   2. A surname from Galician.
   3. A surname from French.
      1. A surname from Occitan.
   4. A surname from Spanish.
      1. A Catalonian surname from Catalan.
   5. A surname from Portuguese.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: Costa (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科斯塔 (Kēsītǎ)

• French: Costa (fr)
• Galician: Costa (gl)
• Italian: Costa
• Occitan: Costa
• Portuguese: Costa (pt)
• Spanish: Costa (es)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Costa is the 904^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38265 individuals. Costa is most common among White (83.16%) and Hispanic/Latino (10.25%) individuals.

See also

• Acosta
• Costa Blanca
• Costa Verde
• Dacosta

Further reading

• Costa (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ascot, Casto, Coast, Coats, Cotas, Sacto, ascot, catso, coast, coats, octas, scato-, scoat, tacos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan Costa, from Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔs.ta/

Proper noun

Costa m or f by sense

1. a Languedoc surname, Costa, from Occitan, equivalent to the French Côté

Descendants

• → English: Costa

Galician

Etymology

From costa (“slope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsta̝/

Proper noun

Costa f

1. name of a large number of hamlets and villages all along Galicia
2. a toponymical surname, Costa

Related terms

• Acosta
• Dacosta

Descendants

• English: Costa
• Spanish: Costa

References

• “Costa” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Costa” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Costa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

From Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.sta/
• Rhymes: -ɔsta
• Hyphenation: Cò‧sta

Proper noun

Costa m or f by sense

1. a toponymic surname

Descendants

• English: Costa

Further reading

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

Anagrams

• Tasco, casto, scato-, scota, tosca

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin costa.

Proper noun

Costa

1. a toponymic surname, Costa

Descendants

• English: Costa
• French: Costa
• Spanish: Costa

Portuguese

Etymology

From costa (“coast”), from Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa (“rib, side”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔs.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʃ.tɐ/

• Homophone: costa
• Hyphenation: Cos‧ta

Proper noun

Costa m or f by sense

1. a toponymic surname, Costa

Descendants

• English: Costa

See also

• da Costa
• Da Costa
• Dacosta

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Romance (from Galician Costa, Occitan Costa, Catalan Costa), from Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkosta/ [ˈkos.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Syllabification: Cos‧ta

Proper noun

Costa m or f by sense

1. a non-Castilian surname, Costa, from the Romance languages, equivalent to the Spanish Cuesta
   1. a surname from Occitan
   2. a Catalonian surname from Catalan
   3. a surname from Galician

Descendants

• English: Costa

See also

• Acosta
• Dacosta