Names distinctive to Togo

The list of names unique to the Togolese Republic*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Amouzou 89% 3.
2. Togo 43% 2.
3. Akakpo 36% 1.
4. Kossi 34% 4.
5. Kodjo 29% 5.
6. Messan 69% 9.
7. Folly 36% 6.
8. Ajavon 59% 10.
9. Lare 30% 7.
10. Komi 34% 8.
11. Akue 46% 11.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Benin 26%
Côte d'Ivoire 22%
Ghana 21%
Senegal 20%
Burkina Faso 20%
Mali 18%
Gabon 18%
Niger (the) 16%
Cameroon 14%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).