Given name & surname
Coe
“a jovial woman”
Coe is a variant of Co. One American interpretation is “a jovial woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Coe is a variant of Co. One American interpretation is “a jovial woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Coe is a variant of Co. An origin associated with Co is American.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Middle English co, from Old English ca (“jackdaw”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Coe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 244
- 244 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,275 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +215%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,275 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 393 as a first name in 2020; 15,911 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Coe
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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