Kunó
surname · Latin script
Kunó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a diminutive of Konrad.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 270K
- SESweden≈1 in 450K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kuno in US United States, PE Peru, KE Kenya and 1 more.
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)- Middle Low GermanKônrât(inferred from the name graph)via Konrad
- Old Saxon*Cōnrād(inferred from the name graph)via Konrad
- Proto-West Germanic*Kōnirād(inferred from the name graph)via Konrad
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From a diminutive of Konrad.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kunó is found
(measured from records)Kunó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 1 | Kuno | 6 |
| US United States | — | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 301 | Kuno | 114 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 9 | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | Kuno | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 124 | 1 in 1.7M | 124 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 449K | 237 | — | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 271K | listed | — | 7 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #133 | — | — | — | Kuno | 5 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Kunó is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, it is said; so they say; as it was heard around
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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 Kunó mean, and where does it come from?
- From a diminutive of Konrad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kunó?
- Mondonomo estimates about 920 people named Kunó in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuno. After it come United States, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kunó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254 people named Kunó in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Kunó compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Kunó is the 133rd most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kun%C3%B3The 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, “Kunó” — ranked 686th in Kenya (Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch"). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.