Cañez

Name: Cañez: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cañez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 178K(measured from records)
BRBrazil1 in 245K
IEIreland≈1 in 83K

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.

: United States (measured from records)
Sources: 146 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Canez

Locally spelled Canez in US United States, BR Brazil, PE Peru and 4 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 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cañez 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 Cañez is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	1,874	1 in 178K	1.9K	Canez	146
BR Brazil	865	1 in 245K	865	Canez	49
PE Peru	≈200 est.	≈1 in 164K	—	Canez	24
CO Colombia	≈89 est.	≈1 in 554K	—	Canez	3
CA Canada	≈70 est.	≈1 in 537K	—	Canez	6
IE Ireland	≈62 est.	≈1 in 83K	—	Canez	1
DO Dominican Republic	≈32 est.	≈1 in 331K	—	Canez	2

1,874 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cañez is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland
Languages: English, German, Chinese
Also written Canez, Cáñez
Hindi surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Canez, Cánez
Arabic surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Peru
Also written Canez, Cáñez
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, United States
Also written Canez
Romanian surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Canez
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Canez, Cáñez, C-Anez, Canêz

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cañez 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 Cañez have the most bearers?: In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Cañez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canez.
How common is the name Cañez?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,874 people named Cañez in 2010, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Cañez?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1ez

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Cañez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)