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Cochise

Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Cochise has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Cochise, 2021

1 in 678,000

Cochise over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cochise: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cochise means

Cochise is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cochise is used in Apache (Anglicized).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 boys were recorded with the name Cochise between 1954 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1978; its best national rank was #3,062 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cochise?

Cochise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cochise sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cochise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cochises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cochise was born before 1978 — so the typical Cochise is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
76
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Cochise rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (11)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,062
1957

Cochise by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,062
1957
Peak year
1978
11 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cochise

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cochise

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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