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Coco

#2,334 in 2025Girls' name

Cook

Coco has been given to 1,879 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,334 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Coco, 2025

1 in 42,500

Coco over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coco: meaning, origin, and history

Cook

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Coco means

Coco means “cook”, associated with cocu.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Coco (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Coco is used in English and Spanish.

Coco comes through Italian Coco and Sicilian cocu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Coco is pronounced /ˈkəʊkə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,879 girls were recorded with the name Coco between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 105 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,851 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,851 in 2020 to #2,334 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,241 in 2015 to #2,334 in 2025.

How common is Coco?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,334
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coco sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cocos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coco was born before 2013 — so the typical Coco is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,879
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (678).

Is Coco 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
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−483
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−93
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.3%
Peak was 2020 (105)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,851
2020

Spellings of Coco

Coco is not the most common spelling — Cora is, with 65.8% against Coco's 0.79%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Coco is used

Across 2016–2025, Coco was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,613 girls, against 1 in 19,061 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

162 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,613
  2. 2Utah1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 9,091
  4. 4New York1 in 14,286
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 33,333
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Coco around the world

Where Coco ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #733
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #5,781
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Coco by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,334
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 483
Best rank ever
#1,851
2020
Peak year
2020
105 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,879
Count in 2025
78

Names similar to Coco

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Sibling names for Coco

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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