קו
org · Hebrew script
Meaning: line (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: CBS Israel, 2017
קו is a name written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. קו is also written Kav in Latin.
- ILIsrael1 in 212K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 20Kas Coe
- FIFinland1 in 57Kas Ko
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than קו itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212K (inferred from the name graph)
16,819 named Coe, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel
measured from records inferred from the name graph
קו in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ko in US United States.
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)line
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname קו is found
(measured from records)קו 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,819as Coe | 1 in 20K | 17K | Ko | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 343as Coe | 1 in 617K | 343 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 336as Qu | 1 in 149K | 336 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 158as Ko | 1 in 109K | 216 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 157as Ko | 1 in 290K | 157 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 98as Ko | 1 in 57K | 98 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 84as Ko | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | — |
| IL Israel | 41 | 1 in 212K | 41 | קו | 16 |
| GY Guyana | 12as Koo | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | — |
16,819 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling coe. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Koo Hye-sunb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, director and singer
- Koo Ja-cheolb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Goo Harab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer (1991–2019)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name קו mean, and where does it come from?
- line Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname קו?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Coe, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Spain, Netherlands and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is קו most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, קו is densest in Israel — about 1 in 212 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name קו?
- In Israel, the national register counted 41 people named קו in 2017, about 1 in 212 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/%D7%A7%D7%95The 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, “קו” — ranked 1989th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.