Kontoš
surname · Latin script
Kontoš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a short man, from kontos ‘short’; also a reduced form of any of various surnames formed with Konto- as a prefix, e.g. Kontogiannis ‘short John’.
- USUnited States1 in 205K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 311K
- SESweden1 in 567K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
1,621 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)nickname for a short man, from kontos ‘short’; also a reduced form of any of various surnames formed with Konto- as a prefix, e.g. Kontogiannis ‘short John’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kontoš 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 | 1,621 | 1 in 205K | 1.6K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 31 | 1 in 1.5M | 31 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 27 | 1 in 311K | 27 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 18 | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
1,621 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Kontoš mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a short man, from kontos ‘short’; also a reduced form of any of various surnames formed with Konto- as a prefix, e.g. Kontogiannis ‘short John’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kontoš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Kontoš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kontoš most common?
- Kontoš is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 205 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kontoš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,621 people named Kontoš in 2010, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/konto%C5%A1The 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, “Kontoš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.