The Konate surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 571 people carried this name — #38,691 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 223% from 177 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Konate surname
A surname from Fula.
Borrowed from Fula Konaté.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Konaté» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 549 people named Konate.
Most of them — 383 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 34 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 130 people named Konate live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
106 people named Konate live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
30 people named Konate is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Konate in American newspapers,
1930–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 885 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Konate.
- Kolodziej 2,265 · U.S. census
- Kolodziejczak 247 · U.S. census
- Kolodziejczyk 337 · U.S. census
- Kommer 410 · U.S. census
- Komorowski 952 · U.S. census
- Konan 202 · U.S. census
- Konczak 249 · U.S. census
- Kone 1,431 · U.S. census
- Kong 14,165 · U.S. census
- Konieczny 1,740 · U.S. census
- Konig 743 · U.S. census
- Konopka 2,447 · U.S. census
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