Cando
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular present indicative of candar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kando/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 779(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 28K
- ESSpain1 in 54K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 779 (inferred from the name graph)
21,696 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A small city, the county seat of Towner County, North Dakota, United States.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Cando is read(measured from records)
Cando is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
first-person singular present indicative of candar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
A small city, the county seat of Towner County, North Dakota, United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #129 | 21,696 | 1 in 779 | 22K | Cando | 49 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Cando | 44 |
| ES Spain | — | 932 | 1 in 54K | 932 | Cando | 63 |
| US United States | — | 653 | 1 in 509K | 878 | Cando | 147 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Cando | 30 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Cando | 4 |
21,696 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cando is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, nominative singular of canda (“moon”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, when
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 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
- Where does the name Cando come from?
- A small city, the county seat of Towner County, North Dakota, United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cando?
- A machine transcription gives /kando/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Cando mean?
- In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of candar
- In which country does Cando have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Cando, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cando.
- Where is Cando most common?
- Cando is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 779 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cando?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 21,696 people named Cando in 2024, about 1 in 779 residents.
- How common is Cando compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Cando is the 129th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/candoThe 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, “Cando” — the 129th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.