Kantun
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kantun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 171K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.6M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kantun 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 | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | listed | Kantun | 30 |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30M | — | Kantun | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | 322 | Kantun | 79 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kantun is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, corner (of a room or street)
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 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 322 | #882 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,213 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #60,890 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kantun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 people named Kantun in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kantun.
- Where is Kantun most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kantun is densest in Norway — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kantun?
- In Norway, the national register counted 32 people named Kantun, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kantun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kantunThe 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, “Kantun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.