Conning
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ME/AFr coning ‘rabbit’; first attested Geoffrey Conyng, Ralph Konyng 1296 SRSx
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑnɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Conning is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- NZNew Zealand
- ZASouth Africa
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ME/AFr coning ‘rabbit’; first attested Geoffrey Conyng, Ralph Konyng 1296 SRSx
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Conning is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, present participle and gerund of con
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, rabbit, cony
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Malika Ndlovub. 1971ZAnot in their usual nameb. 1971 Malika Ndlovu is a South African poet who has performed her work across the globe.
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #318,869 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Conning mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME/AFr coning ‘rabbit’; first attested Geoffrey Conyng, Ralph Konyng 1296 SRSx Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Conning?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑnɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Conning have the most bearers?
- Conning is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Conning?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/conningThe 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, “Conning”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.