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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Germanized spelling of Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Jewish Kos.
  • Eastern German : from a short form of the personal name Kosmas (see Kosman), popular mainly in Slavic-speaking regions.
  • German : from an altered form of an old personal name formed with Old High German got ‘god’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farm so named, from Old Norse kǫs ‘mound’, ‘heap’.

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