Cavana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: var. regional de Cavanna
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cavana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 133K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 117K
- ITItaly≈1 in 263K
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
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
343 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
var. regional de Cavanna
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cavana 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 | 343 | 1 in 133K | 343 | Cavana | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 263K | listed | Cavana | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 139 | 1 in 1.5M | 139 | Cavana | 26 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Cavana | 19 |
| PE Peru | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Cavana | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Cavana | 3 |
343 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)
Cavana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Cavanna
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Italian, a covered shelter for boats (typical of Venice and the Veneto)
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 11 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 343 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 139 | #49,267 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 Cavana mean, and where does it come from?
- var. regional de Cavanna Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Cavana have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 343 people named Cavana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavana.
- Where is Cavana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cavana is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cavana?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 343 people named Cavana, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cavanaThe 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, “Cavana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.