Takou
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Takou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 842Kas Taku(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2Mas Taku
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7Mas Taku
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Takou itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 842K (inferred from the name graph)
1,575 named Taku
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
India, as Taku
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
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)Takou 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,575as Taku | 1 in 842K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 114as Taku | 1 in 2.9M | 194 | Takou | 10 |
| ES Spain | 7as Taku | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5as Taku | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5as Taku | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5as Taku | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
1,575 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)Takou 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 English, Synonym of Kaohsiung.
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)- LucFosther Diopb. 1980CMnot in their usual nameCameroonian artist, filmmaker, actor and entrepreneur
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
| 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
- In which country does Takou have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Taku, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Takou most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Takou itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is India's: the national register counts about 1 in 842 thousand people named Taku.
- How common is the name Takou?
- In India, the national register counted 1,575 people named Taku, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Takou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takouThe 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, “Takou”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.