Kantou
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kantou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 10th most common surname.
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.4Kas Cantu(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 4.3Kas Kanto
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.6Kas Cantu
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 Kantou itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 named Cantu, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est., as Cantu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cantu in US United States, MX Mexico, BR Brazil and 4 more and Cantú in ES Spain.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kantou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #273 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | Cantu | 212 |
| US United States | #709 | 49,126as Cantu | 1 in 6.8K | 49K | Cantu | 431 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,125as Canto | 1 in 12K | 17K | Cantu | 65 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,815as Canto | 1 in 8.6K | 5.8K | Cantú | 38 |
| CA Canada | #868 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Cantu | 51 |
| SG Singapore | #466 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Cantu | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,294as Kanto | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Cantu | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 725as Canto | 1 in 4.7K | 725 | — | 10 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #10 | — | — | — | Cantu | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,134 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Kantou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Cantu in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kantou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 49,126 people named Cantu in 2010, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kantou compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Kantou is the 273rd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kantou?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kantouThe 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, “Kantou” — the 273rd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.