Kokou
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
Kokou is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country, where it is the most common given name.
- TGTogo≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- GAGabon≈1 in 17K
- NENiger≈1 in 19K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 190 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Togo, 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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kokou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #1 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 190 | 62 | Kokou | 48 |
| BJ Benin | #274 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kokou | 14 |
| NE Niger | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | — | 3 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 219 | — | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | Kokou | 13 |
| US United States | — | 489 | 1 in 680K | 486 | Kokou | 102 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | — | 7 |
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: Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)- Kwaku Dua I Panyinb. 1797GHnot in their usual nameKing of the Ashanti
- Prempeh Ib. 1870GHnot in their usual nameAshanti king (1870-1931)
- Rebop Kwaku Baahb. 1944GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian musician (1944-1983)
- Joseph Kokou Koffigohb. 1948TGTogolese politician
- Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu IIb. 1950GHnot in their usual nameKing of the Ashanti
- Emmanuel K. Akyeampongb. 1962GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian historian (born 1962)
- Michael Folivib. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1998)
- Isak Hienb. 1999SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer (born 1999)
- Kwaku Bonsu Oseib. 2000GHnot in their usual nameGhanian footballer
- Kwaku MillerUSnot in their usual namebasketball 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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 219 | #1,941 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Kokou a male or female name?
- Kokou is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kokou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Kokou in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokou.
- How common is the name Kokou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 489 people named Kokou in 2020, about 1 in 680 thousand residents.
- How common is Kokou compared with other names?
- In Togo, Kokou is the most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kokou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kokouThe 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, “Kokou” — the most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.