Cánepa
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Cánepa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Canepa.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
- PEPeru≈1 in 22K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,322 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Canepa in AR Argentina, PE Peru, UY Uruguay and 3 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)Borrowed from Italian Canepa.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cánepa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #961 | 3,322 | 1 in 14K | 3.3K | Canepa | 72 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Canepa | 47 |
| UY Uruguay | #311 | 1,745 | 1 in 1.9K | 1.7K | Canepa | 30 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Canepa | 52 |
| US United States | — | 1,245 | 1 in 267K | 1.3K | Canepa | 132 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 304 | 1 in 28K | 304 | Canepa | 12 |
3,322 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Orestes Jordánb. 1913PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer (1913-1991)
- Carlos Cánepab. 1957PEPeruvian politician
- Horacio Cánepab. 1963PEPeruvian lawyer
- Gisela Cánepa Kochb. 1964PEPeruvian anthropologist
- Bernardo Ernesto Lechnerb. 1969ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian botanist, mycologist and lichenologist
- Edgardo Cánepab. 1969UYUruguayan engraver
- Diego Cánepab. 1972UYUruguayan politician
- Diego Cánepab. 1976ARArgentine canoeist
- Katia Cánepa Vegab. 1986PEPeruvian designer
- Federico CánepaARArgentinian actor
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Cánepa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Canepa. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Cánepa have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Cánepa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canepa.
- Where is Cánepa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cánepa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cánepa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 3,322 people named Cánepa, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Cánepa compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Cánepa is the 961st most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A1nepaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cánepa” — the 961st most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.