Kogo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of こご

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008

/koɠo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Kogo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • BRBrazil1 in 7.1M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

30 people

Record sources
32 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 7.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Rōmaji transcription of こご

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kogo 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 Kogo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil301 in 7.1M30——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——
US United States——listedKogo32
NG Nigeria———Kogo13
AU Australia———Kogo9
KE Kenya——2Kogo12
TZ Tanzania———Kogo3

30 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Kogo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Koğo

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Кого

29 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Kogo 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 French, kogo (“Korean corndog”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Korean-style deep-fried battered sausage on a stick

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dsb, genitive/accusative of chto

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, genitive of kto; whose

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vep, heap, pile

    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)
  • Benjamin Kogob. 1944KEathletics competitor (1944–2022)
  • Micah Kogob. 1986KEKenyan long-distance runner (b. 1986)
  • Momo KohgoJPnot in their usual nameJapanese professional wrestler

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 Mr Kogo,
InformalHi Kogo,

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Kogo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—30#148,949
KE KenyaMzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners20222#108
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#203,156
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Kogo mean, and where does it come from?
Rōmaji transcription of こご Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kogo?
In Swahili /koɠo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Kogo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 people named Kogo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kogo most common?
Kogo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Kogo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 30 people named Kogo, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.

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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, “Kogo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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