Coco

3,169 people in the United States were counted with the surname Coco in the 2020 census, making it the 9,768th most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,169
Rank: 9,768th
How common: 1 in 94,300
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Sicilian

From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from scn cocu (“cook”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Coco described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Hispanic or Latino 8.1%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Coco

Francesco Coco (born 1977)Italian footballer
James Coco (1930–1987)American stage and screen actor
Marcus Coco (born 1996)French association football player
Saúl Coco (born 1999)Equatorial Guinean association football player

People named Coco with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Coco

Also a first name

Coco has been given to 1,879 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2020. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.