Cañas

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kaɲas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 760(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 4.4K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.3K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
246 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 760 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CañasLatin(measured from records)
КанасCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Canas in US United States.

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 Lithuanian

Iš vok. Zahn (M. Gottschald,

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cañas 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 Cañas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#465≈11,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K15Cañas87
ES Spain#6059,3481 in 5.3K9.3KCañas105
SV El Salvador#130≈8,500 est.≈1 in 760—Cañas33
VE Venezuela#601≈5,400 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Cañas33
US United States—4,8321 in 69K4.8KCanas246
CR Costa Rica#4034051 in 13K405Cañas21

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Cañas is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Can͂as, Cańas, Cañás, Canás, Cáñas

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Canas, Canaș

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Canas, Canaş

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland

    Also written Canas, Cañás

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Canas

26 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)

1700180019002000José Simeón Cañas y Villacorta, b. 1767José Damián Villacorta, b. 1796Alicia Cañas Zañartu, b. 1901Germán Picó Cañas, b. 1905Carlos Cañas, b. 1924Vicente Cañas, b. 1939Jordi Cañas Pérez, b. 1969Ernardo Gómez, b. 1982Adrián Cañas, b. 1992Daniel Arroyave Cañas, b. 2000

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Cañas,Dear Cañas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cañas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Cañas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—9.3K#593
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9.3K#593
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—405#705
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—15#101

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

How do you pronounce Cañas?
A machine transcription gives /kaɲas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cañas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Cañas in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cañas.
How common is the name Cañas?
In Spain, the national register counted 9,348 people named Cañas, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
How common is Cañas compared with other names?
In Colombia, Cañas is the 465th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Cañas” — the 465th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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