Çanga

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Soylu

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çanga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 61K
  • ARArgentina1 in 141K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Angola (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600 people, est.

Sources
82 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Canga in AR Argentina, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Soylu.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çanga counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Çanga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AO Angola#326≈2,600 est.≈1 in 13K—Canga18
TR Türkiye—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 55K—Çanga34
ES Spain—8141 in 61K814Canga67
AR Argentina—3231 in 141K323Canga40
CO Colombia—≈250 est.≈1 in 198K—Canga23

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çanga is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania

    Also written Canga

  • Khmer surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Spain

    Also written Canga

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, Ecuador

    Also written Canga, Cangá

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cangá, Canga, Çanğa, Caṅga

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, Türkiye

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Canga, Cangá

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Canga

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Ecuador

    Also written Canga, Çanğa

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çanga mean?
Recorded meaning: Soylu.
In which country does Çanga have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Çanga in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canga.
How common is the name Çanga?
In Spain, the national register counted 814 people named Çanga, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
How common is Çanga compared with other names?
In Angola, Çanga is the 326th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çanga” — the 326th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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