Coty
Coty Inc. is a multinational beauty company founded in Paris in 1904 by François Coty. Today, the company is incorporated in Delaware, United States, with its global headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With its subsidiaries, it develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes fragrances, cosmetics, skin care, nail care, and both professional and retail hair care products.
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Meaning & Origin of Coty
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Coty Inc. is a multinational beauty company founded in Paris in 1904 by François Coty. Today, the company is incorporated in Delaware, United States, with its global headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. With its subsidiaries, it develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes fragrances, cosmetics, skin care, nail care, and both professional and retail hair care products.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Coty
As a girl name
Coty first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1966, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1987: 58 births, good for #1,944 nationwide. About 51% of every Coty on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Coty last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 778 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Coty first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1956, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1992: 558 births, good for #406 nationwide. About 56% of every Coty on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Coty last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 6K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Coty
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Names that sound like Coty
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About the name Coty
Coty is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1956 and has accumulated 6K births in the dataset. Coty's peak popularity came in 1992 when it ranked #406. Use the chart and map above to compare Coty's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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