Nako
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nako is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 2K
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 15K
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.
- Albania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, 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)
Nako 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 23 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Nako | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 800K | — | Nako | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Nako | 7 |
| US United States | 222 | 1 in 1.5M | 244 | Nako | 99 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 26 | 1 in 163K | 26 | — | — |
| VU Vanuatu | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2022 Snap Election consolidated candidate list; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Nako is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, 1st person postposed indirect-marked pronoun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gil, to go, depart, go on, go away
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In alu, sticky, gluey
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In loa, to know
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In amm, blood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bpz, steal
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Eugeniusz Nakob. 1916PLPolish conductor, officer of the Polish Army
- Claudine Mboligikpelani NakoUSAmerican stage actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 222 | #84,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 26 | #19,980 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
| VU Vanuatu | Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2022 Snap Election consolidated candidate list | 2022 | 1 | #2 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Nako have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Nako in Albania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nako?
- In the United States, the national register counted 222 people named Nako in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nako?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nakoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nako”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.