Kanno
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mostly written with characters meaning ‘deity’ and ‘field’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkænoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kanno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 223K
- PEPeru≈1 in 307K
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)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
mostly written with characters meaning ‘deity’ and ‘field’. It is prounced Kanno or Kamino in western Japan and Jinno along the eastern seaboard.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanno 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.
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kanno is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mch, the animate plural medial demonstrative pronoun; these, those
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kanno Sugab. 1881JPJapanese journalist (1881–1911)
- Masaaki Kannob. 1960JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Yoko Kannob. 1964JPJapanese composer, arranger, keyboardist, music producer
- Hitomi Kannob. 1965JPJapanese actress and voice actress
- Hiroyuki Kannob. 1968JPJapanese video game writer and designer
- Shiori Kannob. 1974JPJapanese politician
- Yugo Kannob. 1977JPJapanese composer and musician (born 1977)
- Miho Kannob. 1977JPJapanese actress and singer
- Aya Kannob. 1980JPJapanese mangaka
- Rio Kannob. 1993JPJapanese actor and seiyū
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 530 | #41,100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 527 | #16,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 517 | #39,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 511 | #45,147 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,199 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #45,956 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Kanno come from?
- mostly written with characters meaning ‘deity’ and ‘field’. It is prounced Kanno or Kamino in western Japan and Jinno along the eastern seaboard. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kanno?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkænoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Kanno mean?
- Recorded meaning: mostly written with characters meaning ‘deity’ and ‘field’.
- In which country does Kanno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Kanno in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanno.
- How common is the name Kanno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 530 people named Kanno in 2010, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
- How common is Kanno compared with other names?
- In Japan, Kanno is the 640th most common surname of 142,159 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kannoThe 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, “Kanno” — the 640th most common surname in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.