COTa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: coat of arms
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kota/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
COTa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 14K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 29K
- AOAngola≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
quota
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How COTa is read(measured from records)
COTa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish62%
coat of arms
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.2%
quota
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
COTa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | COTa | 5 |
| BR Brazil | #668 | 15,260 | 1 in 14K | 15K | COTa | 107 |
| US United States | — | 11,554 | 1 in 29K | 12K | COTa | 234 |
| AO Angola | #708 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | COTa | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | COTa | 19 |
| PT Portugal | #694 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | COTa | 59 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | COTa | 22 |
| HR Croatia | — | 352 | 1 in 12K | 352 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | #287 | — | — | 1.3K | COTa | 177 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
COTa 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.
from Toledo; Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque, 15th-c Spanish poet
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Catalan, tunic, coat (armoured tunic covering the torso)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rodrigo Cotab. 1434ESpoet
- Leonardo Cotab. 1816USAmerican politician
- Norman Cotab. 1893USU.S. Army Major General (1893–1971)
- Roberto Cotab. 1968ITItalian politician and lawyer
- Chad Cotab. 1971USAmerican football player
- Nico Cotab. 1972ARArgentine musician
- Ed Cotab. 1976USAmerican basketball player
- Humberto Cotab. 1979MXMexican baseball player
- Rodolfo Cotab. 1987MXMexican association football player
- Ava Michelleb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2002)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 15K | #986 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #3,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.4K | #3,494 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.3K | #272 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 352 | #2,211 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 309 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name COTa come from?
- quota Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce COTa?
- A machine transcription gives /kota/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name COTa mean?
- In Spanish, coat of arms
- What are other forms of the name COTa?
- In the etymology graph, Kotze is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does COTa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named COTa in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled COTa.
- How common is the name COTa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,260 people named COTa, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is COTa compared with other names?
- In Mexico, COTa is the 287th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cotaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “COTa” — the 287th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.