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.
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 Kosma is most popular
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 Świętokrzyskie and Lubusz, 83% and 81% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian56 boys born+70%
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Masovian121 boys born+63%
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Pomeranian48 boys born+56%
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Greater Poland53 boys born+18%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian23 boys born+1%
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Lesser Poland46 boys born−3%
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West Pomeranian17 boys born−4%
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Podlaskie11 boys born−20%
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Łódź19 boys born−28%
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Silesian29 boys born−39%
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Lublin9 boys born−58%
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Opole4 boys born−59%
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Subcarpathian9 boys born−64%
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Warmian-Masurian3 boys born−80%
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Lubusz2 boys born−81%
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born−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
1,028Christian
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228
996Kasper
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229987Kosma
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230
971Andreas
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231
960Alberto