Cabaña
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cabaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: cabin, cottage, hut.
- ARArgentina1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 6.6K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 29K
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)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,539 people
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 Cabana 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)
cabin, cottage, hut
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabaña 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 | #657 | 10,539 | 1 in 4.3K | 11K | Cabaña | 40 |
| US United States | — | 1,980 | 1 in 168K | 2K | Cabana | 211 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,318 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Cabaña | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | #277 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Cabaña | 15 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Cabaña | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 921 | 1 in 3.7K | 921 | Cabaña | 13 |
10,539 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Enrique Cabañab. 1937UYUruguayan mathematician
- Francisco González Cabañab. 1957ESSpanish politician
- Gustavo Cabañab. 1982PYParaguayan actor and writer
- Cristina Cabaña Pérezb. 1993ESSpanish judoka
- Maximiliano Cabañab. 1999ARArgentine football player
- Juan Pablo Cabañab. 2001ARArgentine footballer
- Andrea A. Cabaña Faderbotanist
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Cabaña mean, and where does it come from?
- cabin, cottage, hut Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cabaña?
- In the etymology graph, Capanna is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Cabaña have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Cabaña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabaña.
- Where is Cabaña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cabaña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cabaña?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10,539 people named Cabaña, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabaña compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Cabaña is the 657th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caba%C3%B1aThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cabaña” — the 657th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.