Given name & surname
Koko
“the stork has come”
Koko is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “the stork has come.”
Original Japanese志
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “the stork has come.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Koko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 95
- 0 boys · 95 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,456 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +31%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,456 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 617 as a first name in 2020; 543 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.
Koko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Koko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 志. In Greek usage, Koko as a surname is a transliteration of Κόκο.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Koko
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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