Togo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Togo (a country in West Africa)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Togo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MLMali≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • JPJapan≈1 in 26K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 204K

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.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,800 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Mali, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TogoLatin(measured from records)
თოგოGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Togoe in ZA South Africa and Tōgō in JP Japan.

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)

Togo (a country in West Africa)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Togo 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.

Where Togo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan≈4,800 est.≈1 in 26K—Tōgō66
ML Mali≈2,100 est.≈1 in 9.1K1—6
ZA South Africa≈260 est.≈1 in 215K—Togoe7
BR Brazil2001 in 1.1M200—1
US United States1321 in 2.5M139Togo94
AU Australia≈130 est.≈1 in 204K—Togo44
EE Estonia≈4 est.≈1 in 351Klisted—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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Togo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Togo, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tōgō, Tôgo, Tôgô

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Toğo

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Togō, Tōgō, Tōgo

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Tógo

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Togo 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.

  • In English, republic, Africa

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Afrikaans, Togo (a country in West Africa; official name: Togolese Republiek; capital: Lomé)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, Togo (a country in West Africa; official name: Togói Köztársaság)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, toga (loose garment worn by Ancient Romans)

    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)

18001850190019502000Heihachirō Tōgō, b. 1848Shigenori Tōgō, b. 1882Minoru Tōgō, b. 1890Togo Murano, b. 1891Tamami Tōgō, b. 1940Togo D. West, Jr., b. 1942Togo Igawa, b. 1946Dick Togo, b. 1969Jonathan Togo, b. 1977

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 29 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Togo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—200#36,823
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020139#128,411
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010132#129,047
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
ML MaliWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#200
US United Stateswru 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 Togo mean, and where does it come from?
Togo (a country in West Africa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Togo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Togo in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tōgō.
How common is the name Togo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 200 people named Togo, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Togo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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