Coko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/coko/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Coko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 120Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 129K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈550 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Coko 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Coko | 8 |
| HR Croatia | 105 | 1 in 40K | 105 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 65 | 1 in 129K | 65 | Coko | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 8M | — | Coko | 3 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Coko | 39 |
| AT Austria | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 934K | — | Coko | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Coko is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wyy, be caught, netted, trapped by something which envelops the victim, as a fish in a net or a person ambushed or surrounded
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fj, be caught, as a rat in a trap
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bnt-pro, top, point
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, sommet, pointe
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 65 | #15,331 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #142,519 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Coko?
- In Swahili /coko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Coko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 545 people named Coko in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coko.
- Where is Coko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Coko is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Coko?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 105 people named Coko in 2021, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cokoThe 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, “Coko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.