Okumu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/okumu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Okumu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- UGUganda≈1 in 8.9K
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Okumu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #49 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 4 | Okumu | 69 |
| UG Uganda | #15 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 2 | Okumu | 30 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Okumu | 17 |
| US United States | — | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 204 | Okumu | 113 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Okumu | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | Okumu | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Stephen Okumub. 1959KEKenyan boxer
- Peter Okumub. 1962UGUgandan boxer
- Dave Okumub. 1976ATBritish-Austrian singer
- Lucy Aber Okumub. 1988UGUgandan Female Javelin thrower
- Rodgers Okumub. 1994KEKenyan footballer
- Joseph Okumub. 1997KEKenyan association football player
- Judith Okumub. 1998KEKenyan rugby sevens player
- Fuyumi Hawi Okumu Obab. 1998JPJapanese volleyball player (born 1998)
- Robert Okumuactor
- Mitchel Otieno OkumuKEresearcher
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 120 | #139,228 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,367 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #45,521 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 4 | #40 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #94 |
| UG Uganda | Parliament of Uganda MP Database — 11th Parliament sitting members | 2026 | 1 | #418 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Okumu?
- A machine transcription gives /okumu/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Okumu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Okumu in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled okumu.
- How common is the name Okumu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 120 people named Okumu in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Okumu compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Okumu is the 49th most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Okumu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/okumuThe 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, “Okumu” — the 49th most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.