Cangás

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 116K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 178K
  • ARArgentina1 in 523K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

430 people

Record sources
122 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cangas in ES Spain, US United States, AR Argentina 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.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cangás 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 Cangás is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain4301 in 116K430Cangas52
US United States2651 in 1.3M387Cangas122
AR Argentina871 in 523K87Cangas24
CO Colombia≈35 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Cangas10
BR Brazil≈30 est.≈1 in 7M—Cangas11
VE Venezuela≈22 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Cangas10
UY Uruguay191 in 178K19—6

430 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cangás 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

In which country does Cangás have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 430 people named Cangás, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cangas.
Where is Cangás most common?
Cangás is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cangás?
In Spain, the national register counted 430 people named Cangás, about 1 in 116 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, “Cangás”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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