Coco is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Coco is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Coco. In the SmartGenius ranking, Coco is #2,187 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Coco.
In fact, the name Coco did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Coco seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,690, 104 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Coco, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Coco was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Coco a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,906 - with a total of 90 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Coco are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Coco is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois or Massachusetts. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Coco live in Hawaii, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 20,059 would turn around if you called the name Coco across Hawaii.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Coco is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Coco and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Coco, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Cat
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Coco
Coco
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
C
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
O
C
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Coco sounds like this:
