Kantun
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kantun is a surname, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.
- MXMexico1 in 16K◐
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5M
- USUnited States1 in 38M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.1K ◐
- Sources
- 36 ●
- 1 in 16K ◐
across 3 countries
33K records
Official registry-verified
Mexico
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈8.1K | 33K rec. | 1 in 16K | 322 | Kantun | 36 |
| US United States | ≈9 | 70 rec. | 1 in 38M | — | Kantun | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈5 | 15 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | — | Kantun | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 32 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | 4 | — | — |
Roughly 8.1K people in Mexico bear this name (about 1 in 16K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish33K99%
- English3401%
- Norwegian Bokmål321%
- Thai9100%
- Norwegian71%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 32,857 | 99% |
| English | 340 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 32 | 1% |
| Thai | 9 | 100% |
| Norwegian | 7 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 322 | #882 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,213 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #60,890 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kantun?
- We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Kantun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kantun have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.1 thousand people bear Kantun in Mexico, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kantun.
- Where is Kantun most common?
- Kantun is densest in Mexico, where we estimate about 1 in 16 thousand people carry it.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Kantun”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.