Kokere
surname · Latin script
/kokɛɾɛ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kokere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 580Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 960Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 576K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kokere is found
(measured from records)Kokere 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.
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kokere?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kokɛɾɛ/; in Dutch /koː.kərə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kokere?
- Mondonomo estimates about 244 people named Kokere in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokere. After it come Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kokere?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people in Nigeria have Kokere as their first surname, about 1 in 955 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kokere?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kokereThe 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, “Kokere”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.