Kanát
surname · Latin script
Kanát is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish قنات (kanat), from Proto-Turkic *kāynat. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qanat, “wing”), Kyrgyz канат (kanat), Yakut кынат (kınat, “wing”).
- NONorway1 in 31K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 47K
- SESweden1 in 48K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
212 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kanat in SE Sweden.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishقناتkanat(measured from records)
- Proto-Turkic*kāynat(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish قنات (kanat), from Proto-Turkic *kāynat. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qanat, “wing”), Kyrgyz канат (kanat), Yakut кынат (kınat, “wing”).
Sources 4
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanát 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.
212 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kanát mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish قنات (kanat), from Proto-Turkic *kāynat. Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (qanat, “wing”), Kyrgyz канат (kanat), Yakut кынат (kınat, “wing”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kanát have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 212 people named Kanát, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanat.
- Where is Kanát most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kanát is densest in Norway — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kanát?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 212 people named Kanát, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kanát?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kan%C3%A1tThe 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, “Kanát”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.