Forename Kanu

Around the world, Kanu (Kanu , קאנו , કનુ) is a widespread epicene given name. The given name Kanu is habitual in Nigeria, where it is quite a common gender-neutral name, India, where it is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but infrequently female name, and Oman, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in India, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Also, Kanu is the last name as well as the forename.

Jesus fish Kanu is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Kanu

name קאנו, name Kanu, name কানু, name Kañu, name 加努, name กานู, name Kanú, name 卡奴, name 加女, name कनु, name ကံုး, name カンウ, name 卡女, name កានូ, name 卡籹, name ကံု, name 咔女, name 咖女

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Kanu	Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Nepal, India, Nigeria
קאנו	Israel

First names said to be same

Kanú, Kañu, कनु, কানু, กานู, ကံု, ကံုး, កានូ, カンウ, 加努, 加女, 卡女, 卡奴, 卡籹, 咔女, and 咖女

Notable namesakes

	babu lal sah kanu Nepalese politician, NP (b. 1958)
	nwankwo kanu Nigerian association football player, NG (b. 1976)
	malik muhammad din kanu politician in Pakistan
	richmond uchenna kanu Ph.D. University of Ilorin 2015
	wisdom kanu Nigerian footballer, NG (b. 1994)