Poku
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Poku is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country. In Marshall Islands it is the 54th most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 177K
- USUnited States1 in 687K
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)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 191 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Marshall Islands, 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)
Poku 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 | #108 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Poku | 71 |
| US United States | — | 484 | 1 in 687K | 703 | Poku | 201 |
| MH Marshall Islands | #54 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 191 | — | Poku | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 364 | Poku | 105 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Poku | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Poku is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In poz-oce-pro, round object; young coconut
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In aia, a young nut, of coconut
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In srn, music
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chk, shark
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abena Rockstarb. 1901GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian musical artist
- Francis Adu-Pokub. 1959GHGhanaian politician
- Kwadwo Pokub. 1985GHGhanaian footballer
- Kwadwo Pokub. 1992GHGhanaian professional footballer
- Kwame Pokub. 2001GHGhanan association football player
- Patricia Poku-DiabyGHGhanaian businesswoman
- S. K. Riley-PokuGHGhanaian politician
- Sally PokuGHGhanaian makeup artist
- Edith Pokuresearcher
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 703 | #34,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 484 | #44,423 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 364 | #14,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 245 | #73,659 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- In which country does Poku have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Poku in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poku.
- How common is the name Poku?
- In the United States, the national register counted 484 people named Poku in 2010, about 1 in 687 thousand residents.
- How common is Poku compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Poku is the 108th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Poku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pokuThe 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, “Poku” — the 108th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.