Kannu

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kannu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 352K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 460K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈76 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KannuLatin(measured from records)
കുണ്ണMalayalam(measured from records)

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)

Kannu 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 Kannu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈76 est.≈1 in 3.5M—Kannu13
MY Malaysia≈30 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Kannu12
US United States≈15 est.≈1 in 22M—Kannu41
SG Singapore≈13 est.≈1 in 460K—Kannu5
CA Canada≈4 est.≈1 in 9.7M—Kannu4
EE Estonia≈3 est.≈1 in 352Klisted—2

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.

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)

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

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Kännu

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kannu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Estonian, genitive singular of kann

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, wooden pitcher for milk

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, jug, pitcher

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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

Is Kannu a male or female name?
Kannu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Kannu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 76 people named Kannu in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kannu.
How common is the name Kannu?
Mondonomo estimates about 76 people in Indonesia have Kannu as their first given name, about 1 in 3.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Kannu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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