Kukah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nigeria: African name (African Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kukah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 420Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 520Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 418K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Nigeria: African name
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where the surname Kukah is found
(measured from records)Kukah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 519K | listed | Kukah | 17 |
| GH Ghana | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Kukah | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Kukah | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Kukah | 4 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Matthew Hassan Kukahb. 1952NGNigerian bishop
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kukah mean, and where does it come from?
- Nigeria: African name Recorded by African Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kukah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 449 people named Kukah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kukah. After it come Ghana, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kukah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 450 people in Nigeria have Kukah as their first surname, about 1 in 519 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kukahThe 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, “Kukah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.