Čô

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Čô is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 許/许 (Khó͘) or 柯 (Kho) or 高 (Ko), via Spanish Co. Doublet of Ko, Kho, Caw, Gao, Cua, Kua, and Koa.

  • NONorway1 in 101K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 279K
  • SESweden1 in 392K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Čô itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

16,819 named Coe, 2010

Record sources
208 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Co in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Čô: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Čô
  1. Hokkien許/许Khó͘(measured from records)
  2. SpanishCo(measured from records)

From Hokkien 許/许 (Khó͘) or 柯 (Kho) or 高 (Ko), via Spanish Co. Doublet of Ko, Kho, Caw, Gao, Cua, Kua, and Koa.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Čô 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 Čô is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States16,819as Coe1 in 20K17KCo208
BR Brazil7591 in 279K759Co3
ES Spain1161 in 431K116Co20
NO Norway541 in 101K54—5
AR Argentina301 in 1.5M30——
FI Finland26as Coe1 in 214K30—1
DK Denmark21as Coe1 in 279K21—1

16,819 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling coe. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • a separate name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ireland, Dominican Republic

    Also written Co, Cô, Cổ, Čỏ, Cỗ

3 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Čô under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Čô mean, and where does it come from?
From Hokkien 許/许 (Khó͘) or 柯 (Kho) or 高 (Ko), via Spanish Co. Doublet of Ko, Kho, Caw, Gao, Cua, Kua, and Koa. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Čô a male or female name?
Čô is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Čô have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Coe, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čô most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čô is densest in Norway — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čô?
In Brazil, the national register counted 759 people named Čô, about 1 in 279 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, “Čô”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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