Names of Togo TG

The names that most distinguish Togo from the rest of the world are Kokou, Kossi and Kombate.

Written in French, Ewe, Hausa.

Population
8.6M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
724
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 724 name forms in our corpus, 14 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Togo are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Togo included.

How names work in Togo

3 naming traditions are in use in Togo, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Togo

Characteristic of Togo

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Togo holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

KokouKossiRomaricAbdoulAklessoLamoussaAtsouFaroukYawoAdjimeLawoeRoukiaDésiréManasseTheophileAliouFatouWilfriedAdeleLucien
Sized by how much of the difference between Togo's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Kokougiven name●
Kossigiven name●
Kombatesurname●
Romaricgiven name●
Abdoulgiven name●
The best-attested names in Togo, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024)2024not a population count

    Journal Officiel de la Republique Togolaise (via CENI/Cour supreme). Counts: election candidates. given and surname. 1,261 forms. 2024. Licence: Open government data.

    What we know about this register

    Legislative 2024 candidate list from the Journal Officiel; 1822 candidates -> 3159 name rows (1678 given, 1481 surname); FAMILY-first name order, best-effort split; columns Parti/No/Nom et Prenoms/carte/Sexe/DOB.

    Last verified 2026-07-02.

  • The page presents a list of common surnames in Togo, reflecting the cultural diversity of the region, published by the N2026not a population count

    nomsdefamille.net. Counts: not recorded. surname. 20 forms. 2026. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page presents a list of common surnames in Togo, reflecting the cultural diversity of the region, published by the National Institute of Statistics of Togo.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Togo?
No — 3 are described on this page (Ewe and Ga, Hausa, French), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Togo”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/TG (data snapshot 2026-09-12).