Kanàan
surname · Latin script
Kanàan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic كَنْعَان (kanʕān). This surname is mostly found in Lebanon.
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 556K
- JOJordan≈1 in 3K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kanaan in US United States, SY Syria, LB Lebanon and 5 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)Borrowed from Arabic كَنْعَان (kanʕān). This surname is mostly found in Lebanon.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kanàan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #333 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1 | Kanaan | 39 |
| JO Jordan | #797 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Kanaan | 59 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Kanaan | 21 |
| LB Lebanon | #446 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Kanaan | 46 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Kanaan | 46 |
| US United States | — | 598 | 1 in 556K | 853 | Kanaan | 179 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #984 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kanaan | 55 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kanaan | 16 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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
- What does the name Kanàan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic كَنْعَان (kanʕān). This surname is mostly found in Lebanon. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kanàan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Kanàan in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanaan.
- How common is the name Kanàan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 598 people named Kanàan in 2010, about 1 in 556 thousand residents.
- How common is Kanàan compared with other names?
- In Syria, Kanàan is the 333rd most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kan%C3%A0anThe 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, “Kanàan” — the 333rd most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.