Cabana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A cabin or hut for relaxing
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaβana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cabana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 5K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 26K
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
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,539 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A cabin or hut for relaxing.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cabana 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 | #781 | 10,539 | 1 in 4.3K | 11K | Cabana | 57 |
| PE Peru | #662 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Cabana | 58 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Cabana | 39 |
| US United States | — | 1,980 | 1 in 168K | 2K | Cabana | 142 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,318 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Cabana | 87 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 921 | 1 in 3.7K | 921 | Cabana | 32 |
10,539 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national), counting the spelling cabaña. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cabana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Altération de Cabanac, nom de plusieurs localités du sud-ouest de la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In Catalan, alternative form of cabanya (“hut”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, cabin, hut, shack; barn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, cabin, hut, shack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, cabin, hut
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hubert-Charron Cabanab. 1838CACanadian lawyer (1838–1901)
- Georges Cabanab. 1894CACanadian Roman-Catholic archbishop
- Louis Joseph Cabanab. 1896CACanadian Catholic archbishop
- Camille Cabanab. 1930FRFrench politician and official
- Robert Cabanab. 1949USAmerican astronaut
- Éric Cabanab. 1962CACanadian actor
- Paula Carballeirab. 1972ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer
- Chad Cabanab. 1974CACanadian ice hockey player
- Anna Cabanab. 1979FRFrench journalist
- Frédérik Cabanab. 1986CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,475 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,475 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,474 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 921 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cabana mean, and where does it come from?
- A cabin or hut for relaxing. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cabana?
- A machine transcription gives /kaβana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cabana have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Cabana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cabana.
- Where is Cabana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cabana is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cabana?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 10,539 people named Cabana, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Cabana compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Cabana is the 781st most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cabana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cabanaThe 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, “Cabana” — the 781st most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.