Kino
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kino is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: cinema, movie theater.
- USUnited States1 in 901K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.3M
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
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 901K (inferred from the name graph)
369 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cinema, movie theater
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kino 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 | 369 | 1 in 901K | 336 | Kino | 106 |
| FR France | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 21 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 170 | Kino | 26 |
| CA Canada | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 1 | — | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 4 | — | 2 |
| PA Panama | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | 2 |
369 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Kino is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, cinema, movie theater
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In English, A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fj, to disappear, to vanish (underground) (used for spirits)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, body, person, individual, self; main portion
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In srn, movie, motion picture
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, film, cinema
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eusebio Francisco Kinob. 1645ITItalian Jesuit missionary
- Gordon S. Kinob. 1928AUelectrical engineer
- Minoru Kinob. 1945JPJapanese handball player
- Hiroko Kinob. 1950JPJapanese actress
- Megumi Kinob. 1965JPJapanese waka poet (1965-)
- Tsuyoshi Kinob. 1967JPJapanese association football player
- Masato Kinob. 1979JPJapanese actor
- Maya Kinob. 1992JPJapanese announcer
- Futaba Kinob. 1996JPJapanese voice actress
- Hina Kinob. 1997JPJapanese voice actress
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 336 | #25,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #25,632 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15 | #14,023 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Kino mean, and where does it come from?
- cinema, movie theater Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- In which country does Kino have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 369 people named Kino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kino.
- Where is Kino most common?
- Kino is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 901 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Kino in 2020, about 1 in 901 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kinoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.