Costa
[ˈkɔstɑ]Meaning
from Latin costa, "rib; side"; a surname in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Background Story
Costa comes from the Latin costa, "rib" or "side", and is a surname in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Galician and Occitan. In Italy, Portugal, Galicia and Catalonia it derives from the Latin word for "rib", which came to mean a slope or a coast. The French form was borrowed from Occitan. A user-submitted entry also records Costa as a given name in Greek.
