Cool

• Spanish:/kul/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Cool is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English64%

  Of a mildly low temperature.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  and n., lele, nde- li; cool heart = peace, ndileli

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

• Spanish7.7%

  cool (in its informal sense)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Arabic7.2%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Cool in Arabic.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cool, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Dragon
• Girl
• Good
• Bear
• Baby

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Cool is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname49 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Côôl, ÇÕõl, Çôôl, Ĉóòl, Čộộl

• Hindi surname11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Malaysia

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Côôl, Çool, Çöôl, ÇÕõl, Čōôl

• Chinese surname15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, China, Sudan

  Also written Côôl, Cööl, Còól, Cóól, Ćõõl

• Thai surname200 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, India, Pakistan, United States

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Khan, คล, ขันตี, คลี, คัล

• a separate surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, India

  Also written Côöl, Çôôl, Còôl, Côôl, Çóòl

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Cool is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, filter-avoidance spelling of cu (“anus, butthole”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, cool (in its informal senses)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Wim Coolb. 1943NLDutch jurist, business consultant and politician
• David Coolb. 1969USplayer of American football
• Kenton Coolb. 1973GBBritish mountain climber

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).

24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Cool mean, and where does it come from?

Of a mildly low temperature. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Cool?

In the etymology graph, Kühl and Coole are forms of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Cool?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,958 people named Cool in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.

How common is Cool compared with other names?

In Qatar, Cool is the 690th most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.

How do you pronounce Cool?

In Spanish /kul/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Cool?

In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Cool, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cool. After it come India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.