Moeke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moʊɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moeke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Moke(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 178K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 29Kas Moke
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moeke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 named Moke, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moke in US United States, AU Australia, NG Nigeria and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moeke 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 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 178 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 318K | listed | Moke | 16 |
| US United States | 288as Moke | 1 in 1.2M | 314 | Moke | 114 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Moke | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Moke | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | 97 | 1 in 178K | 97 | Moeke | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Moeke | 36 |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Moeke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, diminutive of moe
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)
- Tess Moeke-Maxwellb. 2000NZResearch Fellow in nursing
- Dennis Moekeresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-9308-751X)
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 97 | #19,448 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Moeke?
- A machine transcription gives /moʊɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moeke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 953 people named Moke in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Moeke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moeke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though Côte d’Ivoire holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moeke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 97 people named Moeke in 2007, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Moeke?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moekeThe 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, “Moeke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.