Kanaranzi is an unincorporated community in Kanaranzi Township, Rock County, Minnesota, United States. Kanaranzi is 8 miles southeast of Luverne. Kanaranzi had a post office, which opened on December 30, 1886 and closed on July 4, 1992. In 2011, the Minnesota Department of Transportation estimated its population to be 70. Kanaranzi was platted in 1885; its name comes from the Dakota word for "where the Kansas were killed".