When Roberto Costa was born on 6 September 1920, in Gravellona Toce, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, his father, alfonso costa, was 25 and his mother, MARIA AGNESE ALBERTINI, was 19. He died on 30 May 1985, in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, at the age of 64.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Manuel, Jose, Carlos, Mario, Luis, Fernando, Ana, Francisco, Julio, Eduardo, Jorge, Marcos. Portuguese Joao, Joaquim, Paulo, Duarte, Vasco, Adao, Albano, Anabela, Marcio, Margarida, Serafim, Aderito. Italian Antonio, Angelo, Salvatore, Rocco, Sal, Domenic, Giovanni, Giuseppe, Guido, Luciano, Pasquale, Pietro.
Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, southern French, and Italian: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or river bank, or on the coast (ultimately from Latin costa ‘rib, side, flank’, also used in a transferred topographic sense), or a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. Compare Spanish Cuesta and Lacosta .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Portuguese surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
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