Koza Family Crest & Name History

The same name, two spellings: Koza and Kozik. Name scholars give the meaning as “Little goat / folding knife”.

How the spelling arose

Before spelling was fixed, Kozik was also written Koza. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Kozyk.

The 2010 census count for Koza in the United States was 1,469, good for rank 18,703. That puts it inside the top 25,000 US surnames. 328 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Koza name at birth.

Koza coat of arms

Arms linked to Kozik and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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