Kembo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of kimbo (“position the arms akimbo”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/cɑ̃bo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kembo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 638K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 781K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 638K (inferred from the name graph)
16 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of kimbo (“position the arms akimbo”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kembo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | Kembo | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | Kembo | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kembo | 19 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | — | — | Kembo | 10 |
16 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Kembo 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 bnt-pro, hole, burrow
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In tll, song
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, trou, terrier
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Kembo Kibatob. 2000CACanadian association football player
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 10 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,471 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 7 | #63,966 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,517 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kembo mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of kimbo (“position the arms akimbo”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kembo?
- A machine transcription gives /cɑ̃bo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Kembo have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 16 people named Kembo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kembo most common?
- Kembo is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 638 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kembo?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16 people named Kembo, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kembo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kemboThe 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, “Kembo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.