Cáneva

surname · Latin script

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

  • UYUruguay1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 54Kfew records
  • ARArgentina1 in 96K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

Record sources
45 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Caneva in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 2 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 Portuguese

variante de Canepa; também pode referir-se a cantina, celeiro ou despensa

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where the surname Cáneva is found

(measured from records)

Cáneva 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 Cáneva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈1,100 est.≈1 in 54KlistedCaneva26
AR Argentina4731 in 96K473Caneva40
US United States1351 in 2.5M135Caneva45
UY Uruguay1321 in 26K132Caneva5
BR Brazil1261 in 1.7M126Caneva31
FR France≈120 est.≈1 in 581K11—1
CH Switzerland341 in 247K34—4

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Cáneva is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Caneva

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Caneva

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cáneva under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Cáneva?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cáneva in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caneva. After it come Argentina, United States, Uruguay and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Cáneva most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cáneva is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cáneva?
In Argentina, the national register counted 473 people named Cáneva, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.

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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, “Cáneva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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