Kango
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A jackhammer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/kɑŋɡɔ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kango is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 230Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
- INIndia1 in 83M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
≈730 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A jackhammer.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kango 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 344K | — | Kango | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Kango | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 787K | — | Kango | 13 |
| KE Kenya | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Kango | 9 |
| SY Syria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Kango | 2 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Kango | 8 |
| IN India | 16 | 1 in 83M | 16 | Kango | 18 |
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. 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)Kango is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hausa, A deserted or dilapidated building.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, watercress
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)- Kango Takamurab. 1895JPJapanese American artist
- Gérard Kango Ouédraogob. 1925BFBurkinabé politician (1925-2014)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #89,381 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kango mean, and where does it come from?
- A jackhammer. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kango?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kɑŋɡɔ/; in English /ˈkɑŋɡoʊ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kango have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 731 people named Kango in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kango.
- How common is the name Kango?
- In India, the national register counted 16 people named Kango, about 1 in 83 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kango?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kangoThe 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, “Kango”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.