Koń

surname · Latin script

Meaning: horse (hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɔɲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Koń is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 782as Koen(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 952as Koen
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.9Kas Keng

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 Koń 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)

69,582 named Ken, 2020

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KoenLatin(measured from records)
เก่งThai(measured from records)
고언Hangul(measured from records)
קאןHebrew(measured from records)

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Keng in US United States, MY Malaysia, CN China and 1 more and Koen in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, NO Norway.

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(measured from records)

horse (hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Koń 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.

Where Koń is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—69,582as Ken1 in 4.8K69KKenG257
NL Netherlands#10418,159as Koen1 in 95218KKoen160
BE Belgium#109≈15,000 est.≈1 in 78274Koen147
MY Malaysia#481≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K—KenG71
CN China—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 135K—KenG35
NO Norway—1,527as Ken1 in 3.6K3.7KKoen11
HK Hong Kong#874≈320 est.≈1 in 23K—KenG25
GY Guyana—248as Ken1 in 3K248—3

69,582 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling ken. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Koń is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Cameroon, Malaysia

    Also written Kon, Kön, Ḳon, Kóñ, Kôn

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kon, Kön, Koñ, Kôn, Kòn

  • Norwegian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Netherlands, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Kon, Kön, Ķòn

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Koń is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dsb, superseded spelling of kóń

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In urj-prm-pro, calf

    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)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Koń, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 3

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 Koń mean, and where does it come from?
horse (hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Koń?
In the etymology graph, Konik, Koński and Klacz are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Koń?
A machine transcription gives /kɔɲ/ (IPA) for Polish.
In which country does Koń have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Ken, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Koń?
In the United States, the national register counted 69,582 people named Ken in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
How common is Koń compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Koń is the 104th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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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, “Koń” — the 104th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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