Cocó
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Cocó is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 44K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 67K
- ARArgentina1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
3,264 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Coco in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.
Cited for this meaning 6
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cocó counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,264 | 1 in 102K | 3.3K | Coco | 133 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,620 | 1 in 81K | 2.6K | Coco | 65 |
| ES Spain | — | 746 | 1 in 67K | 746 | Coco | 64 |
| AR Argentina | — | 633 | 1 in 72K | 633 | Coco | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 193 | 1 in 44K | 193 | — | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #840 | — | — | — | Coco | 17 |
3,264 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cocó is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, a naturally formed hole in rock where rainwater accumulates
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, chicken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- June Cocób. 1985DEGerman musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cocó mean, and where does it come from?
- From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Cocó have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Cocó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coco.
- Where is Cocó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cocó is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cocó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,264 people named Cocó in 2010, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Cocó compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Cocó is the 840th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cocó?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coc%C3%B3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cocó” — the 840th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.