Kantou
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kantou is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 10th most common surname.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.1Kas Cantu(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.4Kas Cantu
- USUnited States1 in 6.8Kas 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 817 (inferred from the name graph)
49,126 named Cantu, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, est., as Cantu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cantu in US United States, BR Brazil, GT Guatemala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| SK Slovakia | #62 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 817 | — | Cantu | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,815as Canto | 1 in 8.6K | 5.8K | Cantú | 38 |
| GT Guatemala | #313 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Cantu | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,294as Kanto | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | Cantu | 4 |
| SG Singapore | #466 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Cantu | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 725as Canto | 1 in 4.7K | 725 | — | 10 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #10 | — | — | — | Cantu | 2 |
49,126 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); 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)
Attested in 4 sources 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?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Cantu, 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 the United States, Kantou is the 709th most common surname of 6,282,806 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 709th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.