Kòn
surname · Latin script
Kòn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hakka 官 (guān).
- NLNetherlands1 in 64K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 125K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
826 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kon in US United States, IN India, NL Netherlands.
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)
From Hakka 官 (guān).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kòn 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 | 826 | 1 in 403K | 925 | Kon | 17 |
| IN India | 365 | 1 in 3.6M | 365 | Kon | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 272 | 1 in 64K | 272 | Kon | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 108 | 1 in 2M | 108 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 104 | 1 in 437K | 104 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 22 | 1 in 192K | 22 | — | 1 |
826 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kòn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, n. bottom; buttocks; base. -n anat, rump. bottom of the bottle. — y anat. coccyx. — 2 EE = eon . n. bottom of the boule. = Ü botA dou n. the part tom of the well. of the buttocks on which one sits. -\u a ;bottom of the jar. — ' 919 n. bottom of the basin. prep. behind. - adv. behind the car. - SQ Ea NYAN (Vientiane) (Vidal) ke 3
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In bnt-pro, castrate
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Haitian Creole, horn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, châtrer
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kòn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hakka 官 (guān). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kòn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 826 people named Kòn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kon.
- Where is Kòn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kòn is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kòn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 826 people named Kòn in 2010, about 1 in 403 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kòn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B2nThe 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, “Kòn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.