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Kojo

#7,445 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Kwadwo

Kojo has been given to 334 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,445 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Kojo, 2025

1 in 301,000

Kojo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kojo: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Kwadwo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kojo means

Kojo is a variant of Kwadwo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kojo → Kwadwo. The family’s meaning is “born on Monday”, recorded in the naming reference for Kwadwo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kwadwo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 334 boys were recorded with the name Kojo between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,069 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,138 in 2020 to #7,445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,489 in 2015 to #7,445 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kojo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,445
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kojo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kojo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kojos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kojo was born before 2000 — so the typical Kojo is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
334
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Kojo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,693
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,044
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.7%
Peak was 1999 (12)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,069
1971

Spellings of Kojo

Kojo is not the most common spelling — Kody is, with 17.8% against Kojo's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Kojo around the world

Where Kojo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1952–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kojo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,693
Best rank ever
#3,069
1971
Peak year
1999
12 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
334
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Kojo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kojo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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