Given name & surname · also French
Cote
Cote is a surname from French, ultimately from Latin.
Original FrenchCôté
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cote comes from French, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cote through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 163
- 163 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 242 as a first name in 2020; 20,395 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.
Cote’s family of names
In English usage, Cote as a surname has a related form in COSTE. In French usage, Cote as a surname has a related form in Coté. In French usage, Cote as a surname has a related form in Côté.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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