Akom
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akom is a surname, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. In Guyana it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- GYGuyana1 in 922◐
- NGNigeria1 in 1.4K
- THThailand1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 284 ●
- 1 in 922 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
138K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Akeem in NG Nigeria, US United States, GY Guyana and 12 more, อาคม in TH Thailand and Akham in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #110 | 53,583 | 70K rec. | — | — | Akeem | 96 |
| TH Thailand | #510 | 37,747 | 20K rec. | — | #808,213 | อาคม | 96 |
| US United States | — | 5,286 | 43K rec. | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Akeem | 284 |
| FR France | — | 3,820△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 18K | 3.8K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,386 | 829 rec. | — | listed | Akeem | 95 |
| GY Guyana | #24 | 814 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 922 | 814 | Akeem | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | #155 | 531 | 562 rec. | — | — | Akeem | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 387 | 230 rec. | — | 2 | Akeem | 50 |
| KE Kenya | — | 345 | 2 rec. | — | — | Akeem | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 313△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 676K | 411 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 263△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 146K | 263 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 219 | 202 rec. | — | 1 | Akeem | 26 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1K59%
- Swahili32718%
- French664%
- 402%
- Spanish402%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,041 | 59% |
| Swahili | 327 | 18% |
| French | 66 | 4% |
| 40 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 40 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Akom is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, [kgm] inf. the state of being possessed with a fetisli, i.e. a temporary madness or ecstasy, expressing itself in dancing and wild gestures, aud ascribed by the negroes to the agency of a fe- tish; wafa ak., he or she has taken in such an agency, has been pos- sessed with a fetish
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Filipino, heaping handful
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #117,840 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2011 | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akom?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Akom (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akom have the most bearers?
- Akom is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled akeem.
- Where is Akom most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Akom is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 922 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Akom compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Akom is the 110th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Akom” — the 110th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.