Kaku
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaku is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of かく.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 132K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 422K
- SESweden≈1 in 2.4M
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)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rōmaji transcription of かく
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaku 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 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kaku | 8 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Kaku | 7 |
| US United States | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | 399 | Kaku | 44 |
| BR Brazil | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 120 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Kaku | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 1 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 8 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 2 | — | 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Kaku is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, grandparent, ancestor, progenitor, forefather, patriarch
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In pam, 1sg. benefactive-dative personal pronoun; to (for) me ([Mirikitani 1972:102](Source#cldf:mirikitani1972))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In dsb, accusative feminine singular of kaki
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, someone who answers for another
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pam, alternative spelling of kanaku
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)
- Kaku Takagawab. 1915JPJapanese Go player (1915-1986)
- Kaku Sechiyamab. 1963JPJapanese sociologist(1963-2026)
- Kaku FuruyaUSPh.D. University of California, Berkeley 1996
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 366 | #55,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 334 | #57,090 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 120 | #55,146 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #43,362 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #140,609 |
| US United States | wru 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
- What does the name Kaku mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of かく Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kaku a male or female name?
- Kaku is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kaku have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Kaku in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaku.
- How common is the name Kaku?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,600 people in Nigeria have Kaku as their first given name, about 1 in 132 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/kakuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kaku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.