Names of Cocos (Keeling) Islands CC

Names in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands are recorded in English and Malay, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in English, Malay.

Population
596
Name forms recorded
73
CBuilt from 73 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Cocos (Keeling) Islands

3 naming traditions are in use in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Every record we hold for Cocos (Keeling) Islands — 73 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common
3deRal——
4Ruthel——
4Bethel——
5Pyra——
10RobertL——

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Cocos (Keeling) Islands at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Scripts & spelling

Saintsurname●
Blocksurname●
Frasiersurname●
Legaresurname●
Blacksurname●
The best-attested names in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Cocos (Keeling) Islands?
We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Is there one naming system in Cocos (Keeling) Islands?
No — 3 are described on this page (Indonesian and Malay, Javanese, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Cocos (Keeling) Islands”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/CC (data snapshot 2026-09-12).