Costel
Most Poles have never met one: only about 55 men carry it, and no boys have been given it since 2000. It comes from Latin, meaning constant or steadfast.
Costel Pronunciation
Costel is pronounced TSOS-tel (/ˈt͡sɔstɛl/).
What Costel means
Where Costel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Costel begins in Latin. The root is constans, which meant steadfast, standing firm under pressure. From the same root Latin formed constantia, the word for constancy. So the meaning stays close to where it started: constant, steadfast.
The sense here is unusually literal. Many names drift far from their roots. Costel does not.
Picture a school register in a Polish class. The teacher reads down the list and lands on Costel. It sits among the more common names as a Latin word for firmness, folded into three short syllables. A child who carries it holds a small piece of Roman vocabulary about endurance.
What the name asks of no one, it simply states. To be steadfast is to stay when staying is hard. The Polish reading keeps the same footing: stały, wytrwały. The Latin constans is still doing the work under the name Costel.
How many people are named Costel
1 in 388113 men in Poland is named Costel. 55 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5001 among male names.
Costel as a middle name
Costel is a first name for 55 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3820th, between Cory (7) and Cristóbal (7).
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#3818 Cooper7
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#3819 Cory7
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#3820 Costel7
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#3821 Cristóbal7
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#3822 Czarosław7