Ganon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rico; rich
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡənən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ganon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 125K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- ILIsrael1 in 3.7Kas גנון
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ganon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
2,360 named גנון, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled גנון in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar.
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)rico; rich
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ganon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #346 | 2,360as גנון | 1 in 3.7K | 2.4K | גנון | 51 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | גנון | 3 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 532 | Ganon | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Ganon | 25 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | גנון | 1 |
| US United States | — | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 255 | Ganon | 123 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 100 | 1 in 34K | 100 | — | — |
2,360 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Neta Ben Yehudab. 1989ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 532 | #924 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 195 | #88,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 100 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ganon mean, and where does it come from?
- rico; rich Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Ganon?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡənən/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Ganon have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named גנון, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ganon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Ganon in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Ganon compared with other names?
- In Israel, Ganon is the 346th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganonThe 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, “Ganon” — the 346th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.