# Kone

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #60,218

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
* As a German surname, Americanized from Kohn or Dutch Koen.
* As an English and Irish surname, variant of Cone.
* As a West African surname, from the Koné clan of the Bambara and Mandinka tribes. Compare Konneh.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kone