Kennon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: reduced form of McKennon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɛnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kennon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 82K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 124K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 46K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
4,053 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
reduced form of McKennon.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kennon 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 | — | 4,053 | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Kennon | 304 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Kennon | 69 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Kennon | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Kennon | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 1 | Kennon | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Kennon | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Kennon | 13 |
| BB Barbados | #944 | — | — | — | Kennon | 2 |
4,053 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Kennon, Sr.b. 1793USAmerican politician (1793–1881)
- William Kennon, Jr.b. 1802USAmerican politician (1802-1867)
- Wilson S. Kennonb. 1826USAmerican politician
- Olive Beaupré Millerb. 1883USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer, editor, and publisher of children's literature (1883–1968)
- Robert F. Kennonb. 1902USAmerican judge (1902–1988)
- James Kennonb. 1925GBRoyal Navy admiral (1925–1991)
- Sandy Kennonb. 1933ZAAssociation footballer (1933-2015)
- Edward Kennonb. 1938USBusinessman and politician
- Kevin Kennonb. 1958USAmerican architect
- Bill KennonUSbasketball 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,178 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,078 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kennon mean, and where does it come from?
- reduced form of McKennon. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kennon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛnən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kennon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Kennon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kennon.
- How common is the name Kennon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,053 people named Kennon in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Kennon compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Kennon is the 944th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kennonThe 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, “Kennon” — the 944th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.