Nyarko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Akan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɲiɑɹkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nyarko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 535K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 118K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A surname from Akan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nyarko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #36 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 98K | Nyarko | 61 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Nyarko | 5 |
| US United States | — | 622 | 1 in 535K | 981 | Nyarko | 147 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Nyarko | 14 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Nyarko | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Nyarko | 12 |
| FI Finland | — | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Nyarko | 4 |
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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alex Nyarkob. 1973GHassociation football player
- Kingsley Nyarkob. 1973GHGhanaian politician
- Richard Nyarkob. 1984GHGhanaian footballer
- Patrick Nyarkob. 1986GHGhanaian footballer
- Solomon Mensah Nyarkob. 1989GHbadminton player
- Veronica Nyarkob. 1989FRFrench association football player
- Kevin Appiah Nyarkob. 2002NLDutch footballer
- Moses Nyarkoactor
- Yaw NyarkoUSeconomist (New York University (NYU))
- Alexander K. NyarkoUSresearcher
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 98K | #28 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 981 | #26,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 622 | #36,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #26,627 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,716 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- What does the name Nyarko mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Akan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nyarko?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲiɑɹkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nyarko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Nyarko in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyarko.
- How common is the name Nyarko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 622 people named Nyarko in 2010, about 1 in 535 thousand residents.
- How common is Nyarko compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Nyarko is the 36th most common surname of 36,883 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/nyarkoThe 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, “Nyarko” — the 36th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.