Costa
- #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1935 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 337since 1916
Costa over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Costa has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | — | |
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| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | — | |
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| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
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| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,216 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,871 | 7 |
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| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
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| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,451 | 7 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | — | |
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| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
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First appearance
1916
The first year at least five boys were named Costa! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Costa is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Costa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,360 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #6,803)
- 183 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #6,803)
- 1,057 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1935 at #2,396 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1936, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 97,193
- Highest: 1 in 97,193 boys born in 2021 were named Costa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,396 in 1935, was only 1 in 104,135 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 23.1% of all boys named Costa (78) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,391 (1919) | #3,454 |
| 1920s | 44 | #2,725 (1926) | #3,826 |
| 1930s | 17 | #2,396 (1935) | #2,700 |
| 1940s | 23 | #2,871 (1940) | #3,308 |
| 1950s | 22 | #3,216 (1956) | #3,731 |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,057 |
| 1970s | 31 | #4,375 (1971) | #4,866 |
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 5 | #9,912 (1999) | #9,912 |
| 2000s | 23 | #7,831 (2003) | #8,934 |
| 2010s | 65 | #5,746 (2015) | #10,117 |
| 2020s | 78 | #5,110 (2021) | #6,693 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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