Cotey
Cotey was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 141 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cotey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cotey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,474, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Cotey peaked in 1993, when 18 boys were given it, #3,525 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #9,474 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,192 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,427 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,563 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,575 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,525 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,944 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,038 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,208 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,109 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 10 | #4,501 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,011 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,531 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,490 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cotey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cotey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cotey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cotey, and how old are they?
An estimated 135 Americans named Cotey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 32 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 157 people named Cotey (10 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Cotey?
Cotey is a less common spelling of Coty: SSA has recorded 141 Cotey and 6,303 Coty since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,091 babies since 1880, Cotey is the fourth most given (2.0% of them).
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 Cotey
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 Cotey and names like it
- Compare Cotey and CotyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCotey peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Cotey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Cotey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.