Kosta
Kosta ( Bulgarian Коста ) is a Bulgarian diminutive of Konstantin, a male given name of Latin origin, which occurs in other countries in the eastern Mediterranean region. For more on the etymology of the name, see here . The Greek equivalent is Kostas ( also Kosta in the accusative and vocative ).
Name bearer
First name
- Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet
- Kosta Barbarouses (* 1990), New Zealand soccer player
- Kosta Lewanowitsch Chetagurow (1859–1906), Ossetian writer and painter
- Kosta Janew (* 1983), Bulgarian football player
- Kosta Karamatskos (* 1986), German basketball player
- Kosta Manojlović (1890–1949), Serbian composer and ethnomusicologist
- Kosta Panica (1857–1890), Bulgarian freedom fighter and military
- Kosta Pećanac (1879–1944), Serbian Chetnik leader
- Kosta Rodrigues (* 1979), German soccer player
Artist name "Costa"
- Costa Cordalis (1944-2019), German-speaking pop singer
Kosta as a family name
- Jiří Kosta (also: Heinrich Georg Kosta; 1921–2015), German-Czech economist and university professor
- Peter Kosta (* 1955), Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam
- Philipp Kosta (* 1991), Italian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Sonja Kosta (* 1924), German actress and singer
- Tomas Kosta (1925–2016), German publisher
Individual evidence
additional
- Kosta (Sweden) , scene of the crime in the Swedish municipality of Lessebo
- Orrefors Kosta Boda , merger of several glassworks in Sweden