Kan-O
given name · Latin script
Kan-O is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Spanish americano (“male American”).
- JPJapan≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 28K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 34K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kanō in JP Japan.
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)Ultimately from Spanish americano (“male American”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kan-O 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Kanō | 107 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | — | 15 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 164 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 757 | 1 in 280K | 757 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 442K | listed | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 206K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | — |
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); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Kan-O mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Spanish americano (“male American”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kan-O have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Kan-O in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanō.
- How common is the name Kan-O?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 757 people named Kan-O, about 1 in 280 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kan-oThe 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, “Kan-O”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.