Kossuth (Kossut, Kosuth, Košút, etc.) are surnames of Slavic origin. the word literally means a hornless forest animal, a female (doe) deer or roe deer. Ko - emphasizing prefix, šutý - hornless. Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic - košuta, košút means in Slovak also a castrated goat, a somersault or a bossy person (dialect).
The surnames may refer to: