Kokk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cook, chef
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kokk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 55K
- SESweden1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cook, chef
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kokk 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.
Registers cited: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kokk 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 Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of kokkur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, cock, rooster, chicken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kmq, giraffe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a cook
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, owls
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)
- Bernhard Kokkb. 1827NONorwegian priest
- Oskar Kokkb. 1895EEEstonian military personnel (1895-1976)
- Jaan Kokkb. 1903EEEstonian politician (1903-1942)
- Toomas Kokkb. 1936EEEstonian sports shooter and physician (born 1936)
- Enn Kokkb. 1937EEEstonian-Swedish politician (1937-2019)
- Aivar Kokkb. 1960EEEstonian politician (born 1960)
- Aavo Kokkb. 1964EEEstonian journalist and business executive (born 1964)
- Marten Kokkb. 1973EEEstonian diplomat and lawyer (born 1973)
- Rene Kokkb. 1980EEEstonian politician (born 1980)
- Kaspar Kokkb. 1982EEEstonian cross-country skier (born 1982)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 263 | #159 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 262 | #179 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 101 | #12,659 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 62 | #10,574 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Kokk mean, and where does it come from?
- cook, chef Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kokk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 347 people named Kokk in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokk.
- How common is the name Kokk?
- In Finland, the national register counted 101 people named Kokk, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Kokk compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Kokk is the 150th most common surname of 37,297 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/kokkThe 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, “Kokk” — the 150th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.