Cane
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE Cana or ME/OFr cane ‘cane, reed’; also from Caen, Calvados; first attested Cana 1066 DB
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kʰeɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 47K
- USUnited States1 in 128K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE Cana or ME/OFr cane ‘cane, reed’; also from Caen, Calvados; first attested Cana 1066 DB
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Cane, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cane 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Cane | 4 |
| US United States | 2,605 | 1 in 128K | 2.9K | Cane | 305 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Cane | 46 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Cane | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Cane | 162 |
| AR Argentina | 1,084 | 1 in 42K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 44 | — | — |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Cane 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 English, A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, duck (female duck)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, rope, mbalu; cane of authority, tikpo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of canō
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)
- Facino Caneb. 1360ITItalian noble and condottiero
- Beatrice Caneb. 1372ITDuchess of Milan
- Thomas Walter Caneb. 1830NZNew Zealand architect and painter (1830-1905)
- Melville Henry Caneb. 1879USAmerican writer and lawyer
- Louis Caneb. 1943FRFrench painter and sculptor (1943–2024)
- David E. Caneb. 1944USAmerican biochemist
- Stephanie Caneb. 1986ILIsraeli pornographic actress and producer
- Sam Caneb. 1992NZNew Zealand rugby union footballer
- Jacob Caneb. 1994GBBritish footballer (born 1994)
- Clay CaneUSjournalist, author, television commentator, radio host and filmmaker
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,821 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 are other forms of the name Cane?
- In the etymology graph, Kahn and Canard are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cane?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰeɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cane mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE Cana or ME/OFr cane ‘cane, reed’; also from Caen, Calvados; first attested Cana 1066 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Cane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Cane in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cane.
- How common is the name Cane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,605 people named Cane in 2010, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caneThe 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, “Cane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.