Conus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Acronym of The continental United States, but is further defined to be the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɔ̃y/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Conus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.7M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
766 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of The continental United States, but is further defined to be the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Conus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 766 | 1 in 11K | 766 | Conus | 11 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Conus | 17 |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | Conus | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Conus | 11 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Conus | 9 |
| VE Venezuela | — | — | — | Conus | 4 |
766 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Conus 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 Latin, cone
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)
- Eduard Conusb. 1827RURussian pianist (1827-1902)
- Georgi Conusb. 1862RURussian composer (1862–1933)
- Julius Conusb. 1869RURussian Empire and Soviet violinist and composer (1869–1942)
- Lev Conusb. 1871FRRussian musician (1871–1944)
- Adrien Conusb. 1900FRFrench Resistance fighter
- Serge Conusb. 1902RURussian musician (1902–1988)
- Natalia Conusb. 1914RUSoviet ballet dancer and ballet master (1914-1989)
- Wanda Wolska Conusb. 1919PLhistorian, medievalist, classical philologist (1919-2012)
- Saint ConusITBenedictine monk
- Denis ConusFRFrench official
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 766 | #1,605 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,023 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Conus mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of The continental United States, but is further defined to be the 48 states between Canada and Mexico, including the District of Columbia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Conus?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔ̃y/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Conus have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 766 people named Conus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled conus.
- Where is Conus most common?
- Conus is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Conus?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 766 people named Conus in 2024, about 1 in 11 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/conusThe 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, “Conus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.