as a Last Name
- 403
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kanis
Meaning & Origins
Dutch and North German: altered spelling of Canis, a humanistic Latinization of Dutch de Hond(t), German Hundt, nicknames meaning ‘dog’.
| 55,090th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 403
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Kanis per capita
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