Akë
surname · Latin script
Akë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. Recorded meaning: William de Ake 1327 SRWo; William del Ake 1364, John de Ake 1384 FrY. From Aike in Lockington (ERY), or ‘dweller by the oak’, OE āc.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 26K
- BJBenin≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ake in MX Mexico, FI Finland, US United States and 1 more and Åke in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
William de Ake 1327 SRWo; William del Ake 1364, John de Ake 1384 FrY. From Aike in Lockington (ERY), or ‘dweller by the oak’, OE āc.
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akë counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 6.7K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,904 | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Ake | 64 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 252K | 40 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 214 | 1 in 26K | 4.8K | Ake | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 74K | Åke | 10 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Ake | 2 |
| MX Mexico | #804 | — | — | 422 | Ake | 99 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Akë mean, and where does it come from?
- William de Ake 1327 SRWo; William del Ake 1364, John de Ake 1384 FrY. From Aike in Lockington (ERY), or ‘dweller by the oak’, OE āc. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Akë have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Akë in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Akë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,904 people named Akë in 2010, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Akë compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Akë is the 804th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ak%C3%ABThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Akë” — the 804th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.