Kényon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kényon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1M
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
12,891 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kenyon in US United States.
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(measured from records)
near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a Brit, name composed of the elements cruc mound (see Crich) + a personal name cogn. with Welsh Einion ‘Anvil’. The earliest known ancestor of bearers of this name was Jordan Kenyon, lord of the manor of Kenyon in the ijth cent.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kényon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,891 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Kenyon | 78 |
| ES Spain | 49 | 1 in 1M | 49 | — | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
12,891 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kényon mean, and where does it come from?
- near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 4 other sources.
- Is Kényon a male or female name?
- Kényon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kényon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kényon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenyon.
- Where is Kényon most common?
- Kényon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kényon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,891 people named Kényon in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A9nyonThe 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, “Kényon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.