Konan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 5 (18) mars, 6 (19) mars
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Konan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 194K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 347
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
5 (18) mars, 6 (19) mars. Conon est son équivalent français. Fête : 26 février.
Sources 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Konan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #669 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 347 | 113K | Konan | 48 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Konan | 17 |
| FR France | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 74 | Konan | 179 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Konan | 11 |
| US United States | — | 167 | 1 in 2M | 348 | Konan | 119 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Konan | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Konan | 1 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Konan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, a tribe
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Russian, Konan Zaruba Alekseev syn, servant. 1521.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Icelandic, definite nominative singular of kona
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of kona
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Konuk, misafir.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Conan I of Rennesb. 1000FRnot in their usual nameDuke of Brittany from 990 to 992
- Conan II de Bretagneb. 1030FRnot in their usual nameDuke of Brittany
- Conan III, Duke of Brittanyb. 1095not in their usual nameDuke of Brittany from 1112 to 1148
- Arthur Conan Doyleb. 1859GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer and physician (1859–1930)
- Adrian Conan Doyleb. 1910GBnot in their usual nameEnglish scion and writer (1910–1970)
- Conan Leeb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor born 1959
- Conan O'Brienb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican television show host and comedian
- Conan Stevensb. 1969AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actor, author and wrestler
- Conan Osírisb. 1989PTnot in their usual namePortuguese singer-songwriter
- Conan Grayb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 113K | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 348 | #62,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 202 | #91,221 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 74 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Konan a male or female name?
- Konan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Konan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 5 (18) mars, 6 (19) mars.
- In which country does Konan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Konan in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled konan.
- How common is the name Konan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Konan in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Konan compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Konan is the 669th most common given name of 25,253 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/konanThe 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, “Konan” — the 669th most common given name in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.