Kenné
surname · Latin script
Kenné is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Ken.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 96K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 99K
- DKDenmark1 in 159K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 96K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 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 Kenne in US United States, CM Cameroon.
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)variant spelling of Ken.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kenné 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 | #286 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Kenne | 18 |
| US United States | — | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 348 | Kenne | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 103 | 1 in 99K | 103 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 37 | 1 in 159K | 37 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 Kenné mean, and where does it come from?
- variant spelling of Ken. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kenné have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 people named Kenné in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kenne.
- How common is the name Kenné?
- In the United States, the national register counted 287 people named Kenné in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Kenné compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Kenné is the 286th most common surname of 27,213 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kenn%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, “Kenné” — the 286th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.