Conover
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Conover is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 51K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Conover 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 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Conover | 3 |
| US United States | 8,738 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Conover | 366 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Conover | 35 |
| RU Russia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Conover | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Simon B. Conoverb. 1840USAmerican politician (1840–1908)
- Henry Boardman Conoverb. 1892USAmerican soldier and amateur ornithologist (1892-1950)
- David Conoverb. 1919USAmerican journalist (1919–1983)
- Willis Conoverb. 1920USAmerican radio producer (1920–1996)
- Lloyd Conoverb. 1923USAmerican inventor (1923-2017)
- William Sheldrick Conoverb. 1928USAmerican politician
- David O. Conoverb. 1953USAmerican marine biologist and professor
- Ted Conoverb. 1958USAmerican journalist
- Adam Conoverb. 1983USAmerican comedian, writer, voice actor, and television host
- Sean Conoverb. 1984USplayer of American football
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.4K | #4,081 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Conover have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Conover in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled conover.
- Where is Conover most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Conover is densest in the United States — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Conover?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,738 people named Conover in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Conover?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/conoverThe 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, “Conover”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.