Kenes
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kenes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 34K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 106K
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 189K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kenes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 849K | 69 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Kenes | 80 |
| BE Belgium | 111 | 1 in 106K | 111 | Kenes | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 101 | 1 in 34K | 101 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Kenes | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kenes | 2 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Kenes 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 kw, spiders
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 264 | #29,329 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 111 | #14,321 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 101 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kenes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 249 people named Kenes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kenes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kenes is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kenes?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 111 people named Kenes in 2008, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kenes?
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/kenesThe 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, “Kenes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.