Kante
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country. In Mali it is the 27th most common surname. Recorded meaning: A common surname in West Africa, especially in Mali and Guinea.
- FRFrance≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- GNGuinea≈1 in 499
- SNSenegal≈1 in 676
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.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 499 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
A common surname in West Africa, especially in Mali and Guinea.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kante 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 499 | 2 | — | 12 |
| SN Senegal | #77 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | 5 | Kante | 30 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 3.7K | Kante | 16 |
| ML Mali | #27 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 5 | Kante | 29 |
| FR France | #866 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 575 | Kante | 199 |
| ES Spain | — | 973 | 1 in 51K | 973 | Kante | 25 |
| SR Suriname | #471 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Kante | 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.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Kante is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, edge
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In pi, inflection of kanta (“lovely”):
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of kanten
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, edge (sharp boundary line), border
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In txb, hundred
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mala; šķautne
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Sumanguru Kantéb. 1300MLKing of the Sosso people
- Solomana Kanteb. 1922GNGuinean writer
- Mory Kantéb. 1950GNGuinean musician (1950–2020)
- Eddy Kanteb. 1959DEGerman musician and actor
- Cédric Kantéb. 1979FRMalian footballer
- Ousmane Kantéb. 1989FRGuinean association football player
- Massiré Kantéb. 1989FRFrench footballer
- José Kantéb. 1990ESGuinean association football player
- N'Golo Kantéb. 1991FRFrench footballer (born 1991)
- Aboubakary Kantéb. 1994FRFrench and Gambian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 3.7K | #154 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 973 | #4,505 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 973 | #4,500 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 575 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 542 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 131 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 26 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 5 | #66 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #16 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Kante mean, and where does it come from?
- A common surname in West Africa, especially in Mali and Guinea. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kante have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Kante in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kante?
- In Spain, the national register counted 973 people named Kante, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Kante compared with other names?
- In Mali, Kante is the 27th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kante?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanteThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kante” — the 27th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.