Kanyo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaɲo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kanyo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 638K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kanyo
- Swahili:/kaɲo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Hungarian:/kɒɲo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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 the surname Kanyo is found
(measured from records)Kanyo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kanyo | 1 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Kanyo | 49 |
| CA Canada | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 609K | — | Kanyo | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Kanyo | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Kanyo | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kanyo | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Kanyo 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 hnn, your (plural)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kanyo?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kaɲo/; in Hungarian /kɒɲo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kanyo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Kanyo in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanyo. After it come United States, Canada, Nigeria and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kanyo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115 people named Kanyo in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kanyo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanyoThe 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, “Kanyo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.