Kouame
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kouame is a surname, most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire, where it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 43◐
- FRFrance1 in 606K
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈466 ●
- Sources
- 180 ●
- 1 in 138K ◐
across 6 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #5 | 430,659 | 6.9K rec. | — | 143K | Kouame | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 281 | 206 rec. | — | — | Kouame | 38 |
| US United States | — | 193 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 392 | Kouame | 122 |
| CA Canada | — | 190 | 227 rec. | — | 5 | Kouame | 39 |
| ML Mali | #74 | 153 | 174 rec. | — | 1 | Kouame | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | 131 | 168 rec. | — | — | Kouame | 25 |
| FR France | — | 112 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 606K | 112 | Kouame | 180 |
| DE Germany | — | 95 | 126 rec. | — | 1 | Kouame | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 138K | 61 | Kouame | 6 |
| TG Togo | #482 | 58 | 18 rec. | — | 1 | Kouame | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 57 | 42 rec. | 1 in 877K | 57 | — | 12 |
| MA Morocco | — | 49 | 53 rec. | — | — | Kouame | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French296K58%
- English144K28%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)71K14%
- German2931%
- Spanish2341%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 296,482 | 58% |
| English | 144,356 | 28% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 70,791 | 14% |
| German | 293 | 1% |
| Spanish | 234 | 1% |
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●
- Koffi Stephane Kouameb. 1983CIbadminton player
- Amine Kouameb. 1986MAMoroccan swimmer
- Kouadio Eric Kouameb. 1997CIIvorian athlete
- Jean-Baptisteb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter and record producer
- Axel Kouameb. 2003CIIvorian footballer (born 2003)
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 143K | #6 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 392 | #56,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 193 | #94,730 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 112 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 61 | #16,013 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 61 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 57 | #40,837 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 57 | #40,491 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 56 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 38 | #31,501 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2004 | 5 | — |
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 · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kouame?
- We estimate roughly 466 people bear Kouame (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kouame have the most bearers?
- Kouame is most frequently recorded in Côte d’Ivoire, where it is most often spelled kouame.
- How common is Kouame compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Kouame is the 5th most common surname of 19,557 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kouame” — the 5th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.