Entry № 2170 · Italian origin

Cosima Cosima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ko-ZEE-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Order, harmony"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "order, harmony".

Cosima is the Italian feminine of Cosmo — from the Greek kosmos, meaning "order" or "harmony of the universe." Cosima Wagner (1837-1930) was the daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner.

Cosima is rising in modern British naming.

Order of the universe. Liszt's daughter, Wagner's wife.

The name in its native script.

Cosima
Transliteration
Cosima
Pronunciation
/ koʊˈziː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cosima stands.

Cosima does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cosimas before her.

Real people
Cosima Wagner
Wife of Richard Wagner.
1837 – 1930
In fiction
Cosima
Character in Orphan Black.
BBC America, 2013–2017

Names connected to Cosima.

The number behind Cosima.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cosima reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.