Family name origins & meanings
- Germanized spelling of Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Jewish Kos.
- Eastern German : from a short form of the personal name Kosmas (see Kosman), popular mainly in Slavic-speaking regions.
- German : from an altered form of an old personal name formed with Old High German got ‘god’.
- Norwegian : habitational name from a farm so named, from Old Norse kǫs ‘mound’, ‘heap’.