Kaneko
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑˈneɪkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaneko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 金子 (Kaneko).
- FIFinland1 in 232K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 267K
- USUnited States1 in 299K
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)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 232K (inferred from the name graph)
1,114 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 金子 (Kaneko).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaneko 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.
1,114 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
- Misuzu Kanekob. 1903JPJapanese poet
- Fumiko Kanekob. 1903JPJapanese activist (1903-1926)
- Agnes Chanb. 1955HKnot in their usual nameHong Kong-born female educator, singer, author, actor
- Shūsuke Kanekob. 1955JPJapanese film director
- Tadashi Kanekob. 1971JPJapanese physiotherapist, kickboxer
- Noboru Kanekob. 1974JPJapanese actor
- Ken Kanekob. 1976JPZainichi Korean actor
- Takatoshi Kanekob. 1978JPJapanese actor
- Seiji Kanekob. 1980JPJapanese association football player
- Mihirob. 1982JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress, tarento and AV idol
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,003 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,637 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 794 | #11,339 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 24 | #40,577 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #26,847 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #55,419 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #102,073 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #106,255 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Kaneko mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 金子 (Kaneko). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kaneko?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈneɪkoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Kaneko have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kaneko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaneko.
- Where is Kaneko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaneko is densest in Finland — about 1 in 232 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaneko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,114 people named Kaneko in 2010, about 1 in 299 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/kanekoThe 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, “Kaneko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.