Kanellos

surname · Latin script

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

/kəˈnɛɫoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kanellos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
  • PLPoland1 in 13M

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 Kanellos 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.

United States (measured from records)

176 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KanellosLatin(measured from records)
ΚανελλοςGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Κανελλος in GR Greece.

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kanellos 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 Kanellos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1761 in 1.9M176Kanellos34
GR Greece≈17 est.≈1 in 633K5Κανελλος39
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—1
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
GB United Kingdom———Kanellos11
CY Cyprus———Kanellos5

176 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

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

Kanellos is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kanéllos

24 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)

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)

FormalDear Mr Kanellos,
InformalHi Kanellos,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Kanellos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010176#102,197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020170#110,517
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000157#105,374
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#265,718
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Kanellos?
A machine transcription gives /kəˈnɛɫoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kanellos have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 176 people named Kanellos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanellos.
Where is Kanellos most common?
Kanellos is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Kanellos?
In the United States, the national register counted 176 people named Kanellos in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Kanellos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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