Kosma
From Greek, where it carries the sense of "order". Still a rare name in Poland and given only to boys: most Poles have never met a Kosma, though it sits inside the country's thousand most-used names.
Kosma Pronunciation
Kosma is pronounced KOS-mah (/ˈkɔsma/).
What Kosma means
Where Kosma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kosma comes from Greek. Behind it stands the word kosmos, meaning order, the arrangement of scattered things into a whole. That same word gave several European languages their term for the cosmos, the ordered universe, and it gave Poland a boy's name whose short meaning stays close to the source: order, porządek. The name did not drift far from what it started as.
Much of its Polish life runs through Saint Cosmas, a physician martyred with his twin brother Damian in the early Christian centuries. The two were remembered as doctors who treated the sick without payment. Their name-day falls on the twenty-sixth of September, so a boy called Kosma has long shared his imieniny with a healer.
The name is rare in Poland now, though it has been coming back. Read it off a class register and it stands apart from the Piotrs and Jakubs around it. Whoever carries Kosma carries the old Greek word for order.
When Kosma celebrates name day
Kosma appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kosma
1 in 15033 men in Poland is named Kosma. 1,422 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #816 among male names.
Kosma's popularity over time
54 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #343 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where parents choose Kosma
Kosma is most popular in Lower Silesian, 70% above the national average (56 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+63%) and Pomeranian (+56%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Lubusz, 83% and 81% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+70%1 in 2,806 babies
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Masovian
+63%1 in 2,928 babies
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Pomeranian
+56%1 in 3,069 babies
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Holy Cross
−83%1 in 27,717 babies
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Lubusz
−81%1 in 24,829 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−80%1 in 23,931 babies
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Lower Silesian+70% 56 born1 in 2,806 babies+70%
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Masovian+63% 121 born1 in 2,928 babies+63%
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Pomeranian+56% 48 born1 in 3,069 babies+56%
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Greater Poland+18% 53 born1 in 4,061 babies+18%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+1% 23 born1 in 4,756 babies+1%
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Lesser Poland−3% 46 born1 in 4,933 babies−3%
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West Pomeranian−4% 17 born1 in 4,966 babies−4%
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Podlaskie−20% 11 born1 in 5,981 babies−20%
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Łódź−28% 19 born1 in 6,669 babies−28%
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Silesian−39% 29 born1 in 7,848 babies−39%
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Lublin−58% 9 born1 in 11,408 babies−58%
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Opole−59% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies−59%
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Subcarpathian−64% 9 born1 in 13,396 babies−64%
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Warmian-Masurian−80% 3 born1 in 23,931 babies−80%
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Lubusz−81% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies−81%
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Holy Cross−83% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−83%
Kosma as a middle name
Kosma is a first name for 1,422 men in Poland and a middle name for another 987, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 229th, between Kasper (996) and Andreas (971).
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#227 Christian1,028
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#228 Kasper996
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#229 Kosma987
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#230 Andreas971
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#231 Alberto960