Coco
Coco was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,334 among girls’ names; 1,879 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Coco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Coco mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Coco is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “cook” (cocu).
From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).
/ˈkəʊkə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Coco?
#2,334 among girls’ names, 2025
Coco fell from #2,241 in 2015 to #2,334 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 47.1 to 48.5 per million.
105 babies in 2020, the peak
Coco peaked in 2020, when 105 girls were given it, #1,851 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,334 | 48.5 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,394 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,382 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,109 | 55.5 |
| 2021 | 94 | #2,047 | 57.3 |
| 2020 | 105 | #1,851 | 65.0 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,204 | 50.0 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,718 | 37.0 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,059 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,837 | 33.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #2,241 | 47.1 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,117 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,844 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,500 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,486 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,479 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,208 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,726 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,759 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,857 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,172 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,185 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,951 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,944 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,857 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,753 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,326 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,622 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,873 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,232 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,019 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,256 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,101 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,723 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,511 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,407 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,618 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,964 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,658 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,894 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,521 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,001 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,672 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,804 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,908 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,353 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,028 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,503 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Coco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coco has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coco, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,879 Americans ever recorded as Coco. The median Coco alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,607 people named Coco (2,367 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,372 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 175 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 694 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 971 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Coco born?
The states with the most babies named Coco are California, Texas and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,286 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,447 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,949 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,163 | 1.1× |
| Hawaii | 5 | #175 | 3.7× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #867 | 0.1× |
Where Coco is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coco is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Coco with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,166 babies since 1880, Coco is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 111 babies (70%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Coco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Coco and names like it
- Compare Coco and CoiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCoco peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coco since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Coco.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coco alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.