כן
surname · Hebrew script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
כן is a surname written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 44th most common given name.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 317as Ken(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 866as Ken
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.4Kas Ken
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than כן itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #898 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 591 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 317 (inferred from the name graph)
≈520,000 named Ken, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est., as Ken
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ken in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
כן 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Ken | 89 |
| US United States | #366 | 69,582as Ken | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Ken | 591 |
| CA Canada | #146 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 866 | 4 | Ken | 285 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Ken | 86 |
| KE Kenya | #435 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Ken | 60 |
| HK Hong Kong | #44 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 317 | — | Ken | 92 |
| AU Australia | #320 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Ken | 253 |
| TW Taiwan | #819 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Ken | 118 |
| SG Singapore | #172 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ken | 130 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
כן is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In arc, thus, so, next
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does כן have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 521 thousand people named Ken in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name כן?
- In the United States, the national register counted 69,582 people named Ken in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is כן compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, כן is the 44th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about כן?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D7%9B%D7%9FThe 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, “כן” — the 44th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.