Moke

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A donkey

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

/məʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Moke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 29K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 53K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)

≈950 people, est.

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Côte d’Ivoire, est.

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 Moeke in NZ New Zealand, 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)

A donkey.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moke 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 Moke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈950 est.≈1 in 29K178——
NG Nigeria≈670 est.≈1 in 318KlistedMoke16
US United States2881 in 1.2M314Moke114
ZA South Africa≈160 est.≈1 in 365K—Moke9
AU Australia≈110 est.≈1 in 235K—Moke42
NL Netherlands97as Moeke1 in 178K97Moeke14
NZ New Zealand≈93 est.≈1 in 53K—Moeke36
EE Estonia≈11 est.≈1 in 117Klisted—1

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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the masakhane register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)

Moke is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa, United States

    Also written Moké, Mokë, Möke

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Möke

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Möke, Moké

46 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)

Moke is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, de mokos, moqueur.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • variant of Mock.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Hawaiian, a male given name originating from the Bible

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

  • In Slovenian, genitive singular of moka

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

  • In enm, alternative form of muk

    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)

18001850190019502000Henri Guillaume Philippe Moke, b. 1803Marie Pleyel, b. 1811Peewee Moke, b. 1986Adriano Moke, b. 1990

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Moke,
InformalHi Moke,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Moke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
NG NigeriaMasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Moke mean, and where does it come from?
A donkey. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Moke?
A machine transcription gives /məʊk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Moke have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 953 people named Moke in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Moke?
In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Moke in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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, “Moke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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