coco · noun1
- Spanish · borrowed fromcoco“grinning face”
- English todaycoco
From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.
Coco · proper noun2
- Sicilian · borrowed fromcocu“cook”
- Italian · borrowed fromCoco
- English todayCoco
From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.