Kojo
given name · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kojo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ashanti/Akan (Ghana): male name for a Monday-born child.
- GHGhana1 in 268◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 184K
- USUnited States1 in 484K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈867 ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 68K ◐
across 8 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Kocho in BE Belgium.
Meaning & origin●
Ashanti/Akan (Ghana): male name for a Monday-born child.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #78 | 63,744 | 3K rec. | — | 59K | Kojo | 92 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,122 | 598 rec. | — | listed | Kojo | 80 |
| US United States | — | 687 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 484K | 687 | Kojo | 182 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 601 | 1K rec. | — | listed | Kojo | 39 |
| JP Japan | — | 474 | 944 rec. | — | — | Kojo | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | 195 | 222 rec. | — | 1 | Kojo | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 154 | 193 rec. | — | 1 | Kojo | 50 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 141 | 140 rec. | — | — | Kojo | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 129 | 168 rec. | — | 2 | Kojo | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | 110 | 151 rec. | — | — | Kojo | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 67△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 152K | 67 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 62 rec. | 1 in 346K | 50 | Kojo | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan59K79%
- English9.9K13%
- Japanese1.6K2%
- Swahili7161%
- Spanish4461%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 59,397 | 79% |
| English | 9,885 | 13% |
| Japanese | 1,624 | 2% |
| Swahili | 716 | 1% |
| Spanish | 446 | 1% |
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●
Kojo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Unconquerable
as a nameThe book of African names
In Polish, pallet, plank bed, or bed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In woc, coconut husking stick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In men, a kind of egg
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kojo Laingb. 1946GHGhanaian author, novelist and poet (1946-2017)
- Kwadwo Owusu Afriyieb. 1957GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian lawyer and politician
- Kojo Annanb. 1973GHson of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
- Kwadwo Asamoahb. 1988GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian footballer (born 1988)
- Joshua Kingb. 1992NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian association football player
- Hiram Boatengb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 1996)
- Kwadwo Duahb. 1997CHnot in their usual nameSwiss association football player of Ghanaian descent
- Kwadwo Opokub. 2001GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian footballer
- Kwadwo Baahb. 2003GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Kojo Oppongb. 2004GHGhanaian association football player
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 43 sources across 25 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 128 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kojo?
- We estimate roughly 867 people bear Kojo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kojo have the most bearers?
- Kojo is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled kojo.
- How common is Kojo compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Kojo is the 78th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Kojo a male or female name?
- Kojo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kojo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ashanti/Akan (Ghana): male name for a Monday-born child.
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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, “Kojo” — the 78th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.