Kanafin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/cʰænəfɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kanafin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan1 in 7.9Kas Канафин(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 422Kas Канафин
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
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 Kanafin 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.
- Kazakhstan (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5M (inferred from the name graph)
2,424 named Канафин, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Канафин in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, CN China and Канафін in UA Ukraine.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanafin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | 2,424as Канафин | 1 in 7.9K | 2.4K | Канафин | 37 |
| RU Russia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Канафин | 81 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Канафін | 6 |
| CN China | — | — | — | Канафин | 1 |
2,424 people counted by 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence, 2021. 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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Erkebūlan QanafinKZnot in their usual nameKazakh Deaflympics athlete
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 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #165,132 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kanafin?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰænəfɪn/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Kanafin have the most bearers?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Канафин, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kanafin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kanafin is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.5 million people — even though Kazakhstan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kanafin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7 people named Kanafin in 2026, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kanafin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanafinThe 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, “Kanafin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.