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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak (Koša) : from a pet form of any of various personal names beginning with Ko-, e.g. Kornel (see Cornelius).
  • Czech, Polish, and Sorbian : from kosa ‘scythe’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of scythes or a metonymic occupational name for a reaper.
  • Czech, Polish, and Sorbian : variant of Kos.

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