Kokou
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kokou is a given name, most frequently recorded in Togo, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- TGTogo1 in 63◐
- FRFrance1 in 310K
- USUnited States1 in 684K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈489 ●
- Sources
- 119 ●
- 1 in 684K ◐
across 2 countries
5.5K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #1 | 3,411 | 564 rec. | — | 62 | Kokou | 41 |
| FR France | — | 1,702 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Kokou | 119 |
| US United States | — | 486 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 684K | 486 | Kokou | 93 |
| BE Belgium | — | 314 | 323 rec. | — | 14 | Kokou | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 177 | 348 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 14 |
| DE Germany | — | 135 | 165 rec. | — | listed | Kokou | 38 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 67 | 75 rec. | — | 219 | Kokou | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 60 | 49 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 14 |
| GH Ghana | — | 57 | 90 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 9 |
| BJ Benin | #239 | 47 | 52 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 44 | 60 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 39 | 37 rec. | — | — | Kokou | 17 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French6.4K69%
- English1.4K15%
- French (RG)1732%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1572%
- Japanese1562%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 6,398 | 69% |
| English | 1,352 | 15% |
| French (RG) | 173 | 2% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 157 | 2% |
| Japanese | 156 | 2% |
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●
- Kwaku Dua I Panyinb. 1797GHnot in their usual nameKing of the Ashanti
- Prempeh Ib. 1870GHnot in their usual nameAshanti king (1870-1931)
- Rebop Kwaku Baahb. 1944GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian musician (1944-1983)
- Joseph Kokou Koffigohb. 1948TGTogolese politician
- Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu IIb. 1950GHnot in their usual nameKing of the Ashanti
- Emmanuel K. Akyeampongb. 1962GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian historian (born 1962)
- Michael Folivib. 1998GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1998)
- Isak Hienb. 1999SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer (born 1999)
- Kwaku Bonsu Oseib. 2000GHnot in their usual nameGhanian footballer
- Kwaku MillerUSnot in their usual namebasketball 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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 486 | #20,952 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 219 | #1,941 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 62 | #3 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #58,493 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #20,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #26,364 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #30,233 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 1 | #94 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #141 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kokou?
- We estimate roughly 489 people bear Kokou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kokou have the most bearers?
- Kokou is most frequently recorded in Togo, where it is most often spelled kokou.
- How common is Kokou compared with other names?
- In Togo, Kokou is the most common given name of 1,116 given names recorded there.
- Is Kokou a male or female name?
- Kokou 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.
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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, “Kokou” — the most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.