Coty

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Mainly U:S.: transferred use of the rare surname, apparently in origin a local name from a diminutive form of French cote ‘riverbank’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈkoʊti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Coty is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 70K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,781 people, 2020

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Mainly U:S.: transferred use of the rare surname, apparently in origin a local name from a diminutive form of French cote ‘riverbank’. Use as a given name has probably been influenced by its resemblance to Cody.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Coty 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.

Where Coty is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,7811 in 70K4.1KCoty92
CR Costa Rica31 in 1.7M3—9
MX Mexico———Coty31
AR Argentina———Coty27
PE Peru———Coty18
CL Chile——1Coty20
UY Uruguay———Coty6

4,781 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Coty is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Algeria

    Also written Côtÿ, Çöty, Çôtý

53 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Coty 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 English, Rene Jules Gustave, French

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, politician

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

18601880190019201940François Coty, b. 1874René Coty, b. 1882Germaine Coty, b. 1886Roland Coty, b. 1901Henri R. Coty, b. 1922Pierre-Marie Coty, b. 1927

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Coty,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Coty
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#21,177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#21,237
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Coty mean, and where does it come from?
Mainly U:S.: transferred use of the rare surname, apparently in origin a local name from a diminutive form of French cote ‘riverbank’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What are other forms of the name Coty?
In the etymology graph, Cody, Kody and Kodey are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Coty?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊti/ (IPA) for English.
Is Coty a male or female name?
Coty is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Coty have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Coty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coty.
Where is Coty most common?
Coty is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Coty?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,781 people named Coty in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.

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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, “Coty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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