Ake
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Aike in Lockington, East Riding of Yorkshire, or 'dweller by the oak'; first attested William de Ake 1327 SRWo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ake/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ake is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 26K
- BJBenin≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Åke in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Aike in Lockington, East Riding of Yorkshire, or 'dweller by the oak'; first attested William de Ake 1327 SRWo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ake counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 6.7K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,904 | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Ake | 64 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 252K | 40 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 214 | 1 in 26K | 4.8K | Ake | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 74K | Åke | 10 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Ake | 2 |
| MX Mexico | #804 | — | — | 422 | Ake | 99 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ake is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Archaic spelling of ache.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, William de Ake 1327 SRWo; William del Ake 1364, John de Ake 1384 FrY. From Aike in Lockington (ERY), or ‘dweller by the oak’, OE āc.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Hawaiian, liver; to desire, yearn (the emotions and intelligence were thought to be centered within the body)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swahili, his/her/its (third-person singular possessive adjective)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Akawaio.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Claude Akeb. 1939NGpolitical scientist
- David A. Akeb. 1961USmusician and composer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 6.7K | #90 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,849 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,240 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 422 | #735 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 40 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #29,865 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,318 |
| BJ Benin | Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028) | 2023 | 1 | #2 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ake mean, and where does it come from?
- from Aike in Lockington, East Riding of Yorkshire, or 'dweller by the oak'; first attested William de Ake 1327 SRWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ake?
- A machine transcription gives /ake/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ake have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Ake in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ake?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,904 people named Ake in 2010, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Ake compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Ake is the 804th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ake” — the 804th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.