Kô
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kô is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).
- USUnited States1 in 25K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 57K
- NONorway1 in 65K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
13,312 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ko in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States.
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kô 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,312 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Ko | 130 |
| BR Brazil | — | 294 | 1 in 720K | 294 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 158 | 1 in 109K | 216 | — | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 157 | 1 in 290K | 157 | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 814K | — | Kô | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 98 | 1 in 57K | 98 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 48 | 1 in 175K | 48 | — | 4 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #3 | — | — | listed | Ko | 105 |
13,312 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kô mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Kô have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ko.
- Where is Kô most common?
- Kô is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kô?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,312 people named Kô in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Kô compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Kô is the 3rd most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B4The 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, “Kô” — the 3rd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.