Ko

14,312 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ko in the 2020 census, making it the 2,463rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,900.

By the numbers

People: 14,312
Rank: 2,463rd
How common: 1 in 20,900
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

From cmn, yue, Korean ^고, etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ko described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ko

Ko Un (born 1933)Korean poet
Ko Yong-hui (1952–2004)Consort of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il
Ko Jong-soo (born 1978)South Korean footballer
Ko A-sung (born 1992)South Korean actress, South Korean former child actress
Takahiro Ko (born 1998)Japanese association football player
Ko Jeong-woon (born 1966)South Korean association football player
Ko Kyung-pyo (born 1990)South Korean actor
Ko Sung-hee (born 1990)South Korean actress

People named Ko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ko

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.