Kengné
surname · Latin script
Kengné is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 450(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 270K
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 445 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kengne in CM Cameroon, FR France, BE Belgium and 4 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 across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kengné 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #2 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 445 | — | Kengne | 35 |
| FR France | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Kengne | 116 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kengne | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 9.2M | listed | Kengne | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | 1 in 2.1M | 24 | Kengne | 13 |
| BE Belgium | — | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | Kengne | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kengne | 5 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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
- In which country does Kengné have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Kengné in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kengne.
- How common is the name Kengné?
- In Spain, the national register counted 24 people named Kengné, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Kengné compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Kengné is the 2nd most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kengné?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kengn%C3%A9The 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, “Kengné” — the 2nd most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.