Dacosta

English

Alternative forms

• Costas, Costa, DaCosta, daCosta, da Costa, Da Costa

Etymology

From Romance (from Galician Dacosta, Portuguese da Costa), from Latin costa.

Proper noun

Dacosta (plural Dacostas)

1. A surname from the Romance languages.

Translations

Translations

• Galician: Dacosta
• Portuguese: da Costa

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dacosta is the 5224^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6679 individuals. Dacosta is most common among White (59.66%), Black/African American (23.94%), and Hispanic/Latino (10.15%) individuals.

See also

• Acosta
• Costa

 

Anagrams

• Dacotas

Galician

Etymology

From da (“of the”) +‎ Costa (“costa (“slope”), but also the name of a large number of hamlets in Galicia”), from Latin costa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈkɔsta̝/

Proper noun

Dacosta

1. a toponymical surname

Related terms

• Costa
• costa
• da

 

Descendants

• English: Dacosta

References

• “Dacosta” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “costa” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• “Da Costa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈkosta/ [d̪aˈkos.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Syllabification: Da‧cos‧ta

Proper noun

Dacosta m or f by sense

1. a surname from Galician