Kost (family name)
Kost is a family name .
variants
Cost, Costa, Chost, Chosti, Koost, Kosto, Koster
Origin and meaning
Roman Constantine . The Christian roots of the name bearers should be expressed and strengthened by the adoption of the name of the Roman emperor Constantine , who introduced Christianity. "Constans" (Latin for permanent).
With the entry in the birth, marriage and death registers from 1876, the spelling "Kost" has remained unchanged in Switzerland.
Occurrence
In Bohemia in connection with the Kost Castle
The name is primarily rooted in central Switzerland in the canton of Lucerne and is still widespread. It has been proven that it appears there for the first time around 1470 in the municipality of Buchrain LU and in 1540 in the municipality of Triengen (canton Lucerne, Switzerland).
Family trees
- http://www.kost.li/kost/kost.php DE, EN - With the permission of the author, the site is based on the out of print book "Origin, history and chronicle of the Kost sex" by Anna Ineichen-Kost, Littau (LU ), Switzerland.
Name bearer
- Albert Kost (1897–1947), German politician (NSDAP)
- Andreas Kost (* 1962), German political scientist
- Bernd Kost (* 1963), German guitarist
- Clemens Kost (1903–1973), German politician (center, CDU)
- Heinrich Kost (1890–1978), German mining engineer and mining manager
- Johann Friedrich Kost , German bailiff in the Sittichenbach office
- Julius Kost (1807–1888), German painter of the Düsseldorf School
- Katharina Kost-Tolmein (* 1973), German dramaturge
- Nina Kost (* 1995), German swimmer
- Otto-Hubert Kost (1929–2015), German theologian
- Rudi Kost (* 1949), German journalist, editor, publisher, author of detective novels and critic