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Cocoa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cocoa has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1983, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Cocoa, 1984

1 in 388,000

Cocoa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cocoa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cocoa means

Cocoa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cocoa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Cocoa between 1982 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1983; its best national rank was #4,931 in 1983.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cocoa?

Cocoa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 388,000
9 of 3,488,451 births
Among girls only
1 in 187,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
268,669 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cocoa 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 1984 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 268,669 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cocoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cocoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cocoa was born before 1983 — so the typical Cocoa is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
34
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Cocoa 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 1983 (14)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,931
1983

Spellings of Cocoa

Cocoa is not the most common spelling — Cora is, with 96.7% against Cocoa's 0.02%.

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.

Cocoa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,931
1983
Peak year
1983
14 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cocoa

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

TecoaCoaCoco

Sibling names for Cocoa

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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