Moki

surname · Latin script

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

Moki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Moqui.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 3.7M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

57 people

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Alternative form of Moqui.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moki 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 Moki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil571 in 3.7M57—1
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1
US United States——listedMoki61
DE Germany———Moki20
ZA South Africa———Moki5
NZ New Zealand———Moki10
CM Cameroon———Moki2

57 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Moki is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Colombia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Möki

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Môki

38 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)

Moki is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In mqs, alternative form of moci (“blind”)

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

  • In Slovenian, dative/locative singular of moka

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

  • In Esperanto, to mock, jeer at, make fun of

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

  • In hop, dead (no longer living)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Moki mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative form of Moqui. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Moki have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 57 people named Moki, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Moki most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moki is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Moki?
In Brazil, the national register counted 57 people named Moki, about 1 in 3.7 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, “Moki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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