Cotes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kotes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cotes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 18K
- PAPanama≈1 in 82K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cotes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #883 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 7 | Cotes | 73 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #576 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Cotes | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 472 | 1 in 106K | 472 | Cotes | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 364 | 1 in 582K | 364 | Cotes | 43 |
| US United States | — | 348 | 1 in 956K | 362 | Cotes | 86 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Cotes | 13 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Cotes | 19 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Cotes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, plural of cota (“tunic, coat (historical)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, plural of cote (“coat”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of coter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of cotar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cōs
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)
- Ambrosio Cotesb. 1550ESSpanish composer
- Roger Cotesb. 1682GBEnglish mathematician
- Thomas Cotesb. 1712Royal Navy vice admiral (1712-1767)
- Samuel Cotesb. 1734GBBritish artist (1734-1818)
- John Cotesb. 1749GBBritish Member of Parliament (1749-1821)
- Merton Russell-Cotesb. 1835British politician
- Peter Cotesb. 1912GBBritish actor and director (1912–1998)
- Galy Galianob. 1958COnot in their usual nameColombian singer
- Jorge Noguera Cotesb. 1963COformer director of the Administrative Department of Security of Colombia
- Thomas CotesEnglish printer
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 472 | #8,402 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 472 | #8,396 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 364 | #22,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 362 | #60,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 348 | #58,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 284 | #65,298 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Cotes?
- A machine transcription gives /kotes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cotes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Cotes in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cotes.
- How common is the name Cotes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 472 people named Cotes, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Cotes compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Cotes is the 883rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cotesThe 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, “Cotes” — the 883rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.