Taki
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Taki is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: God-fearing.
- INIndia1 in 842Kas Taku(measured from records)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 8.8K
- JPJapan≈1 in 8.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Taki itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
God-fearing.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Taki | 93 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 1.4K | — | 9 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | — | 31 |
| IN India | 1,575as Taku | 1 in 842K | 1.6K | Taki | 35 |
| KE Kenya | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | — | 8 |
| ES Spain | 264 | 1 in 189K | 264 | — | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 137 | 1 in 74K | 137 | — | 6 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Taki is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Cascada
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In xgn-pro, he-goat; wild horse
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sdo, feces, excrement; relieve oneself; wax in the ear; scum from the preparation of coconut oil
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In non, third-person singular/plural present active subjunctive of taka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tongan, to carry in the hand; to lead by the hand; to lead (in general)
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)
- Rentarō Takib. 1879JPJapanese pianist and composer (1879–1903)
- Taki Fujitab. 1898JPJapanese educator
- Masaya Takib. 1936JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Makoto Takib. 1938JPJapanese politician
- Satoshi Takib. 1964JPJapanese voice actor
- Pierre Takib. 1967JPJapanese musician and actor
- Kahoko Takib. 1968JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Arisa Takib. 1987JPJapanese singer and model
- Yukari Takib. 1987JPactor
- Michiyo TakiJPJapanese association football player
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 46 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #4,039 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.4K | #396 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #81 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 264 | #13,367 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 264 | #13,322 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 137 | #5,632 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Taki mean, and where does it come from?
- God-fearing. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Taki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Taki in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taki.
- How common is the name Taki?
- In Spain, the national register counted 264 people named Taki, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takiThe 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, “Taki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.