Amoako
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əmoʊkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amoako is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Marshall Islands it is the 24th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Akan.
- USUnited States1 in 549K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 119K
- FIFinland1 in 159K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
606 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Akan.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amoako 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 606 | 1 in 549K | 998 | Amoako | 182 |
| ES Spain | — | 87 | 1 in 575K | 87 | — | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 35 | 1 in 494K | 35 | Amoako | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Amoako | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | — | 6 |
| MH Marshall Islands | #24 | — | — | — | Amoako | 1 |
606 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Amoako 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, A surname from Akan.
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)
- Christine Amoako-Nuamahb. 1944GHGhanaian scientist and politician
- Andrew Asiamah Amoakob. 1966GHGhanaian politician
- Emmanuel Amoakob. 1966GHcyclist
- Helena Amoakob. 1975GHGhanaian athletics competitor
- Olivia Amoakob. 1985GHGhanaian association football player
- Alice Mamaga Akosua Amoakob. 1990GHGhanaian digital social entrepreneur
- Linda Amoakob. 1999GHGhanaian association football player
- Joseph Amoakob. 2002GHGhanaian footballer
- Prince Amoako Juniorb. 2007GHGhanaian footballer (born 2007)
- BIMGBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and minister
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 998 | #25,839 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 606 | #36,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 284 | #65,298 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 87 | #30,538 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 87 | #30,268 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #27,712 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #30,514 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 35 | #38,333 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 34 | #34,078 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Amoako mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Akan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Amoako?
- A machine transcription gives /əmoʊkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Amoako have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 606 people named Amoako, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amoako.
- Where is Amoako most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Amoako is densest in Norway — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Amoako?
- In the United States, the national register counted 606 people named Amoako in 2010, about 1 in 549 thousand residents.
- How common is Amoako compared with other names?
- In Marshall Islands, Amoako is the 24th most common surname of 150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Amoako?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amoakoThe 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, “Amoako” — the 24th most common surname in Marshall Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.