Kansu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Soyu su gibi saf ve temiz olan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kansˈʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kansu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.7K
- NLNetherlands1 in 524K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Soyu su gibi saf ve temiz olan.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kansu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kansu | 55 |
| CY Cyprus | #294 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Kansu | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 9M | listed | Kansu | 40 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 33 | 1 in 524K | 33 | Kansu | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Kansu | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Kansu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Obsolete spelling of Gansu.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-pro, number
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)
- Mazhar Müfit Kansub. 1872TRTurkish statesperson (1872–1948)
- Nafi Atuf Kansub. 1890TRTurkish statesperson (1890–1949)
- Şevket Aziz Kansub. 1903TRTurkish physician (1903–1983)
- Ceyhun Atuf Kansub. 1919TRTurkish physician (1919–1978)
- Salah Qansohb. 1936EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian philosopher
- Emin Kansub. 1947TRTurkish physician (born 1947)
- Ali Qansob. 1948LBnot in their usual nameLebanese politician (1948-2018)
- Gözde Kansub. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Tülay KansuTRTurkish physician and medical researcher
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 33 | #39,392 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Kansu?
- A machine transcription gives /kansˈʊ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Kansu mean?
- Recorded meaning: Soyu su gibi saf ve temiz olan.
- In which country does Kansu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Kansu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kansu.
- How common is the name Kansu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 33 people named Kansu in 2007, about 1 in 524 thousand residents.
- How common is Kansu compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Kansu is the 294th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kansuThe 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, “Kansu” — the 294th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.