Khò

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to burn; to char using a powerful heat source

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Khò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 298K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 75K
  • FIFinland1 in 186K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

4,457 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kho in IN India, US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

to burn; to char using a powerful heat source

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khò 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.

Where Khò is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India4,4571 in 298K4.5KKho3
US United States1,0631 in 313K1.2KKho20
NL Netherlands2311 in 75K231Kho7
FI Finland301 in 186K30—1
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9—1

4,457 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Khò is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Malaysia, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kho, Khổ, Khoe, Khờ, Khô

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Khò is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kix, face

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

  • Gao Guangxianb. 1533not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=129836
  • Gao Linb. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
  • Gao Yuanlannot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 153132
  • Gao Yongchunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 129835
  • Gao Huainot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321125
  • Gao Shennot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321126
  • Gao Liangchennot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321127
  • Gao Daguannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321133
  • Gao Dakunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321134
  • Gao Dagangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321135

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Khò under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Khò mean, and where does it come from?
to burn; to char using a powerful heat source Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Khò have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Khò, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kho.
Where is Khò most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khò is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Khò?
In India, the national register counted 4,457 people named Khò, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.

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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, “Khò”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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