Koïta
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Koïta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country, where it is the 40th most common surname.
- MLMali≈1 in 260few records(inferred from the name graph)
- MRMauritania≈1 in 530few records
- SNSenegal≈1 in 1.1Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 255 (inferred from the name graph)
≈96,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koita in US United States, ML Mali, CI Côte d’Ivoire and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Koïta is found
(measured from records)Koïta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #40 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 255 | 4 | Koita | 28 |
| SN Senegal | #154 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 3 | Koita | 17 |
| MR Mauritania | #25 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 528 | — | Koita | 8 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | — | 5 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 387 | Koita | 7 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 341 | Koita | 87 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Khady Koitab. 1959SNSenegalese activist and author
- Yah Soucko Koïtab. 1980MLMalian athletics competitor
- Sekou Koitab. 1999MLMalian 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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Koïta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named Koïta in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled koita. After it come Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Koïta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Koïta in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Koïta compared with other names?
- In Mali, Koïta is the 40th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ko%C3%AFtaThe 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, “Koïta” — ranked 51st in Mali (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.