How Many People Are Named Kou?
people named Kou are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 493,196 people in the US has this name
Based on 724 babies named Kou in Social Security records from 1979 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
53 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "gold" in Hmong.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Kou, 4.6% were girls and 95.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 5.3% of the babies were girls then and 5.1% in the 1990s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kou alive today is about 34 years old, and 79% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 31 and 40 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kou first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 1992, to 53 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.
Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2017
🏆 Rank History
Kou has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,713, in 1981.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,713 (1981) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,859 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kou alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kou were born in California than in any other state: about 246 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kou was given 12.9 times as often in Minnesota, 12.1 times in Wisconsin and 3.8 times in California.
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