Canísia
given name · Latin script
Canísia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 120K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 166K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Canisia in NL Netherlands, US United States, ZA South Africa 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canísia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Canisia | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 144 | 1 in 120K | 144 | Canisia | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Canisia | 2 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Canisia | 39 |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Canisia | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Canisia | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Canísia a male or female name?
- Canísia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Canísia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 353 people named Canísia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canisia.
- Where is Canísia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Canísia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 120 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Canísia?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 144 people named Canísia, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Canísia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/can%C3%ADsiaThe 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, “Canísia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.