Kakos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant spelling of Kakas, from kakas ‘rooster’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a rooster or a metonymic occupational name for a farmer who kept chickens
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkeɪkoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kakos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 635K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 35K
- CZCzechia1 in 82K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
variant spelling of Kakas, from kakas ‘rooster’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a rooster or a metonymic occupational name for a farmer who kept chickens.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kakos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Kakos | 2 |
| US United States | 524 | 1 in 635K | 546 | Kakos | 167 |
| CZ Czechia | 131 | 1 in 82K | 131 | — | — |
| IN India | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Kakos | 1 |
| GR Greece | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 3 | Kakos | 30 |
| EE Estonia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Kakos | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Kakos | 1 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
Kakos is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Greek, Reduced form of surnames prefixed with the epithet kakos ‘bad’, ‘mean’, for example, Kakopetros ‘Peter the mean’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Greek, from a Persian personal name, Kaykaus, meaning ‘just’, ‘noble’. This was the name of a king of Iran (died 1058).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Greek, habitational name from a place in Szatmar county.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jindřich Kakosb. 1912Czechoslovak fencer (1912–1971)
- František Kakosb. 1919Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Czechoslovak politician
- John Paul Kakosb. 1998USAmerican Actor
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 11 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 546 | #42,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 524 | #41,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 422 | #47,308 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 131 | #13,024 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 131 | #6,839 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Kakos mean, and where does it come from?
- variant spelling of Kakas, from kakas ‘rooster’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a rooster or a metonymic occupational name for a farmer who kept chickens. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kakos?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkeɪkoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kakos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Kakos in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kakos.
- How common is the name Kakos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 524 people named Kakos in 2010, about 1 in 635 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kakosThe 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, “Kakos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.