Cocò

surname · Latin script

Cocò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,264 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 44K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 67K
  • ARArgentina1 in 72K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)

3,264 people, 2010

Record sources
113 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Coco in IT Italy, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.

Cited for this meaning 6

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Cocò is found

(measured from records)

Cocò 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 Cocò is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,2641 in 102K3.3KCoco89
BR Brazil—2,6201 in 81K2.6K——
ES Spain—7461 in 67K746Coco12
AR Argentina—6331 in 72K633——
CH Switzerland—1931 in 44K193Coco15
IT Italy#761≈79 est.≈1 in 748K2Coco113

3,264 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Cocò is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Vietnamese

    Also written Coco, Co-Co, Côco, Coco', Cöcö

  • Hungarian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Italy, United States

    Also written Coco, Cőcő, Cocő

  • Spanish surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Coco, Côco, Cocô, Cóco, Cocó

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 Cocò 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 Cocò mean, and where does it come from?
From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Cocò?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Cocò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coco. After it come Brazil, Spain, Argentina and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Cocò most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cocò is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cocò?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,264 people named Cocò in 2010, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
How common is Cocò compared with other names?
In Italy, Cocò is the 761st most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cocò” — ranked 6209th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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