Meaning and background
The story behind Cocada
Cocada has a precise sweet-food association in Spanish. Collins labels the coconut-sweet sense as Central American and lists several unrelated regional senses separately, including uses involving journeys or tyres. The culinary meaning can inspire a dog’s name without turning the word into a universal name translation. Keeping its regional label is useful because the same spelling may bring different associations to speakers from different places.
- Association
- Collins records cocada as a coconut sweet in Central American Spanish, with other regional senses listed separately. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Cocada appears in 5 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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