Boakye

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɔækaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Boakye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 12th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 338K(measured from records)
  • GHGhana≈1 in 831K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 169K

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.

United States (measured from records)

985 people, 2010

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Boakye 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.

Where Boakye is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9851 in 338K1.7KBoakye247
ES Spain—1751 in 286K175Boakye27
NL Netherlands—1021 in 169K102Boakye29
BE Belgium—541 in 217K54Boakye22
SE Sweden—431 in 237K43—10
GH Ghana#12≈35 est.≈1 in 831K121KBoakye97
NO Norway—321 in 171K32—8
FI Finland—231 in 242K23—6

985 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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Boakye is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ghana, France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Boákye

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ghana, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Böãkÿê

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Ghana, Kuwait, United States

    Also written Bóàkye

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Lynette Yiadom Boakye, b. 1977Isaac Boakye, b. 1981Emmanuel Boakye, b. 1985Portia Boakye, b. 1989Tracey Boakye, b. 1991Richmond Boakye, b. 1993Thomas Boakye, b. 1993Martin Boakye, b. 1995Kwesi Boakye, b. 1998Augustine Boakye, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Boakye,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Boakye
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GH GhanaGhana top-100 surnames (surnam.es)—121K#21
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,634
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010985#25,171
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000503#40,908
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—175#18,323
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—175#18,247
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007102#18,786
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200854#24,710
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—43#14,247
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—32#34,076
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23#40,873
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • 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

How do you pronounce Boakye?
A machine transcription gives /bɔækaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Boakye have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 985 people named Boakye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boakye.
Where is Boakye most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boakye is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Boakye?
In the United States, the national register counted 985 people named Boakye in 2010, about 1 in 338 thousand residents.
How common is Boakye compared with other names?
In Ghana, Boakye is the 12th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Boakye” — the 12th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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