Irakoze

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Irakoze is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Burundi it is the 60th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BIBurundi1 in 460
  • RWRwanda1 in 3.8K
  • NONorway1 in 55K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈447

across 8 countries

Sources
45

664 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 55K

Norway

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Irakoze is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States129285 rec.1 in 2.6M344Irakoze45
AU Australia122118 rec.Irakoze21
SE Sweden1118 rec.1 in 92K111Irakoze7
NO Norway1001 rec.1 in 55K1002
BE Belgium4546 rec.1 in 260K283Irakoze7
RW Rwanda#1444456 rec.3.1KIrakoze6
CA Canada4134 rec.1Irakoze20
CH Switzerland300 rec.1 in 280K30Irakoze1
GB United Kingdom2517 rec.Irakoze14
BI Burundi#601832 rec.29Irakoze15
DK Denmark180 rec.1 in 326K181
DE Germany1518 rec.1Irakoze9

Roughly 129 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.6M). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French65425%
  • English57022%
  • Swahili37114%
  • Dutch35914%
  • German1355%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French65425%
English57022%
Swahili37114%
Dutch35914%
German1355%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name

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

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Irakoze
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
RW RwandaNISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex20253.1K#4
RW RwandaNISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex20252.6K#5
RW RwandaNISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex20242.6K#4
RW RwandaNISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex20242.4K#5
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020344#62,792
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)283#6,124
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010129#131,379
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)111#6,645
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)100#15,354
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200845#28,104
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202430#27,377
BI BurundiCENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025202529#2

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Irakoze?
We estimate roughly 447 people bear Irakoze (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Irakoze have the most bearers?
We estimate about 129 people bear Irakoze in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled irakoze.
How common is Irakoze compared with other names?
In Burundi, Irakoze is the 60th most common surname of 272 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Irakoze” — the 60th most common surname in Burundi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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