Kò
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 3rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 25K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 57K
- NONorway1 in 65K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
13,312 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ko in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States and Kô in VN Vietnam.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kò 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,312 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Ko | 130 |
| BR Brazil | — | 294 | 1 in 720K | 294 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 158 | 1 in 109K | 216 | — | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 157 | 1 in 290K | 157 | — | — |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 814K | — | Kô | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 98 | 1 in 57K | 98 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 48 | 1 in 175K | 48 | — | 4 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #3 | — | — | listed | Ko | 105 |
13,312 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kò is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In car, scream, cry, yell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, banana: Musaceae
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In man, to wash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, forest
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Haitian Creole, body
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, banane: Musaceae
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Guo Linb. 1431not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=199023
- Guo Heb. 1449not in their usual namepolitician
- Zeng-Yuan Guob. 1936CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist
- Ara Guob. 1989TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer
- Emma Guob. 1995AUnot in their usual namechess master
- Guo Tingxunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 357034
- Guo Zhoumounot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 357036
- Guo Huannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 219883
- Guo Dinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 219894
- Guo Rengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 219905
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(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kò have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ko.
- Where is Kò most common?
- Kò is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,312 people named Kò in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Kò compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Kò is the 3rd most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kò?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B2The 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, “Kò” — the 3rd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.