Kok
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: cock, shuttlecock: a lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kok is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 481(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 33K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 481 (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
1. occupational name for a cook. Middle Dutch coc. 2. occupational name from Middle Dutch (scarp)coc ‘executioner’, ‘hangman’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kok is read(measured from records)
Kok is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Malay49%
cock, shuttlecock: a lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kok in English.
- Dutch7.6%
1. occupational name for a cook. Middle Dutch coc. 2. occupational name from Middle Dutch (scarp)coc ‘executioner’, ‘hangman’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
cook
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
cook, chef
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kok 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #118 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | — | Kok | 116 |
| SG Singapore | #262 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Kok | 127 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Kok | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Kok | 122 |
| US United States | — | 415 | 1 in 802K | 1.7K | Kok | 270 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 70 | Kok | 15 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Kok is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, hide where? injustice, oppression, (ak-paik)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In trk-pro, dust, ashes
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Kwok Yung Yenb. 1907CNnot in their usual nameChinese ornithologist
- Hua Guofengb. 1921CNnot in their usual name2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)
- Yu Guocongb. 1922CNnot in their usual nameChinese chemist (1922–2022)
- Ang Kiukokb. 1931PHnot in their usual nameFilipino artist (1931-2005)
- Sun Baoguob. 1961CNnot in their usual nameAcademician for food science, Chinese Academy of Engineering
- Wang Guonot in their usual namepolitician
- Zhao Guonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 320055
- Wang Guonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 294868
- Yang Guonot in their usual nameWestern Wei person CBDB = 172451
- Liu Guonot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 162540
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 371 | #23,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 44 | #23,544 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1988 | 1 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Kok come from?
- 1. occupational name for a cook. Middle Dutch coc. 2. occupational name from Middle Dutch (scarp)coc ‘executioner’, ‘hangman’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kok?
- A machine transcription gives /koʔ/ (IPA) for Malay.
- What does the name Kok mean?
- In Malay, cock, shuttlecock: a lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games
- Is Kok a male or female name?
- Kok is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kok have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Kok in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kok.
- How common is the name Kok?
- In the United States, the national register counted 415 people named Kok in 2020, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.
- How common is Kok compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Kok is the 118th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kok?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kokThe 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, “Kok” — the 118th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.