Cañoto

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 373K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 848K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 853K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

568 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 373K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Canoto in BR Brazil, PH Philippines.

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cañoto 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 Cañoto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5681 in 373K568Canoto7
ES Spain591 in 848K59Cañoto14
PH Philippines≈57 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Canoto3
BO Bolivia≈14 est.≈1 in 853K—Cañoto4
AR Argentina131 in 3.5M13Cañoto9
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6—1

568 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Cañoto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Canoto

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cañoto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, stump

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Cañoto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—59#39,624
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—59#39,527
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—13—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Cañoto have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 568 people named Cañoto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canoto.
Where is Cañoto most common?
Cañoto is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 373 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cañoto?
In Brazil, the national register counted 568 people named Cañoto, about 1 in 373 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, “Cañoto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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