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Cotina vs Coty

American parents have registered 6,303 Cotys since 1880, against 243 Cotinas. Coty is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cotina against Coty, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cotina Coty

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Coty for 59 years and Cotina for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Cotina Coty
Total US births 2436,303
Most in one year 109599
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 2306,100
Median age today 5234
Peak year 19721992
Best rank 1,056th girls406th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 19721956
Girls / boys 243 / 0778 / 5,525

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cotinas alive today are over 52; half the Cotys are over 34. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cotina and Coty.