Cavaña
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cavaña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Mac an Mhanaigh, see McCavana . The stress is on -van-, but there has been some confusion with Kavanagh , which is stressed on the first syllable.
- ARArgentina1 in 133K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 117K
- ITItaly≈1 in 263K
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
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
343 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 Cavana in AR Argentina, PE Peru, BR Brazil 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(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Mac an Mhanaigh, see McCavana . The stress is on -van-, but there has been some confusion with Kavanagh , which is stressed on the first syllable.
Sources 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cavaña 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 | 343 | 1 in 133K | 343 | Cavana | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 263K | listed | Cavana | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 139 | 1 in 1.5M | 139 | Cavana | 26 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Cavana | 19 |
| PE Peru | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Cavana | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Cavana | 3 |
343 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cavaña mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. from Mac an Mhanaigh, see McCavana . The stress is on -van-, but there has been some confusion with Kavanagh , which is stressed on the first syllable. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Cavaña have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 343 people named Cavaña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavana.
- Where is Cavaña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cavaña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cavaña?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 343 people named Cavaña, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cava%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, “Cavaña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.