Côn

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a stick or staff

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Côn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 50K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

330 people, 2010

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Con in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain.

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)

a stick or staff

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Côn 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.

Where Côn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3301 in 1M544Con40
BR Brazil1691 in 1.3M169Con1
PL Poland1171 in 327K60——
CR Costa Rica1011 in 50K101—1
ES Spain621 in 807K62Con6
CZ Czechia341 in 315K34——

330 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Côn is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Coen, Con, Cön, Çon, C-On

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Çon, Cǒń, Čon, Cón, Con

  • French name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Con, Cön, Çöñ, Còn, Čöň

  • Italian name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Con, Çon, Cơn, Cón, Còn

  • Portuguese name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy

    Also written Con, Çon, Çön, Cön, Cõn

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Liu Kun, b. 271Xu Kun, b. 1691Kun Chang, b. 1917Huang Kun, b. 1919Wang Kun, b. 1925Lee Kwan, b. 1930Guo Kun, b. 1935Jiang Kun, b. 1950
  • Liu Kunb. 271not in their usual namepolitician (271-318)
  • Xu Kunb. 1691not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 86696
  • Kun Changb. 1917TWnot in their usual nameChinese linguist
  • Huang Kunb. 1919CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist (1919–2005)
  • Wang Kunb. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese singer
  • Lee Kwanb. 1930CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor (1930-2008)
  • Guo Kunb. 1935CNnot in their usual nameChinese polar explorer
  • Jiang Kunb. 1950CNnot in their usual nameChinese comedian
  • Xu KunCNnot in their usual nameEastern Han general
  • Zhang Kunnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 29019

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Côn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Côn mean, and where does it come from?
a stick or staff Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Côn a male or female name?
Côn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Côn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 330 people named Côn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled con.
Where is Côn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Côn is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Côn?
In the United States, the national register counted 330 people named Côn in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%B4n

The 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, “Côn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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