Mogo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: cassava
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/moɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mogo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 610K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 785K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kikuyu (Kenya): mystic prophet associated with coming of white colonialists.
Sources 1
- African Names
How Mogo is read(measured from records)
Mogo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish51%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mogo in Spanish.
- English13%
cassava
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aboriginal; 'axe'.
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- French8.4%
bloke, man, particularly as seen as engaging in intercourse with women, philanderer, lothario
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mogo in Swahili.
- Portuguese6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mogo in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mogo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 785K | listed | — | 1 |
| PT Portugal | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Mogo | 20 |
| ES Spain | 82 | 1 in 610K | 82 | Mogo | 24 |
| IN India | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 26M | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | Mogo | 18 |
| CO Colombia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Mogo | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 3 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Mogo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ki, Kikuyu (Kenya): mystic prophet associated with coming of white colonialists.
as a nameAfrican Names
In xdk, obsolete form of mugu
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 82 | #31,753 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 82 | #31,586 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mogo come from?
- Kikuyu (Kenya): mystic prophet associated with coming of white colonialists. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Mogo?
- A machine transcription gives /moɡo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mogo mean?
- In English, cassava
- In which country does Mogo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 273 people named Mogo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mogo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 82 people named Mogo, about 1 in 610 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mogoThe 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, “Mogo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.