Kokos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: coconut, coconut palm (tree)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊkoʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kokos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 306K
- ATAustria≈1 in 332K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 306K (inferred from the name graph)
180 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
coconut, coconut palm (tree)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kokos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 193 | Kokos | 120 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Kokos | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Kokos | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kokos | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 35 | 1 in 306K | 35 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 32 | 1 in 1.2M | 19 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Kokos | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Kokos | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
180 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kokos 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 Dutch, the white flesh of the coconut, often in a desiccated form
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, the flesh of the coconut; its taste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, coconut (flesh of the coconut)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, locative plural of koks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, shredded coconut flesh
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)
- Dick Kokosb. 1928USAmerican baseball player
- Marvin Kokosb. 2000FRFrench association football player
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 180 | #100,302 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,590 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #115,406 |
| 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 given-name 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
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
- What does the name Kokos mean, and where does it come from?
- coconut, coconut palm (tree) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kokos?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊkoʊs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kokos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 180 people named Kokos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokos.
- Where is Kokos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kokos is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 306 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kokos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Kokos in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kokosThe 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, “Kokos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.