Costa

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

From pan-Romance (Portuguese Costa, Galician Costa, Spanish Costa, Catalan Costa, Occitan Costa, French Costa, Italian Costa), from Latin costa (“rib; side”).

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.

• 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.

• Costa (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Borrowed from Occitan Costa, from Latin costa.

• IPA^(key): /kɔs.ta/

Costa m or f by sense

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

• → English: Costa

From costa (“slope”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsta̝/

Costa f

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

• English: Costa
• Spanish: Costa

• “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

From Latin costa.

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

Costa m or f by sense

1. a toponymic surname

• English: Costa

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

• Tasco, casto, scato-, scota, tosca

From Latin costa.

Costa

1. a toponymic surname, Costa

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

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

• Homophone: costa
• Hyphenation: Cos‧ta

Costa m or f by sense

1. a toponymic surname, Costa

• English: Costa

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

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

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

• English: Costa