Koči
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʂi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koči is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech Kočí, from kočí (“coachman”).
- CZCzechia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 3.1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 42K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,577 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Koci in US United States, IN India, IT Italy and Kočí in CZ Czechia.
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)
- CzechKočí(measured from records)
- Czech rootkočí“coachman”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Czech Kočí, from kočí (“coachman”).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Koči 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #168 | 4,577 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.6K | Kočí | 64 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Koci | 9 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 66 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 653 | 1 in 509K | 748 | Koci | 23 |
| IN India | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Koci | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 127 | 1 in 66K | 127 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 44 | 1 in 48K | 44 | — | 2 |
4,577 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Koči is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ko-pro, milt, roe
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, молоки минтая
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Latvian, pilsēta Indijas dienvidos, Keralas štatā, Lakšadvīpu jūras krastā, 607000 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Japānā, Šikoku salā, prefektūras administratīvais centrs, 332000 iedzīvotāju (2016. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, sporta apavi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kūčas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Martin Kočib. 1993SKJunior World Rally Championship driver
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #117,122 |
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
- What does the name Koči mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech Kočí, from kočí (“coachman”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Koči?
- A machine transcription gives /koʂi/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Koči have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Koči, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kočí.
- Where is Koči most common?
- Koči is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Koči?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,577 people named Koči, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Koči compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Koči is the 168th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Koči?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ko%C4%8DiThe 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, “Koči” — the 168th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.