Chanes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of chan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chanes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 14K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 338K
- CLChile≈1 in 468K
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)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
243 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of chan
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chanes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 243 | 1 in 871K | 243 | Chanes | 40 |
| UY Uruguay | 235 | 1 in 14K | 235 | Chanes | 17 |
| US United States | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 219 | Chanes | 68 |
| ES Spain | 148 | 1 in 338K | 148 | Chanes | 36 |
| AR Argentina | 69 | 1 in 659K | 69 | Chanes | 26 |
| CL Chile | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Chanes | 18 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 512K | — | Chanes | 4 |
243 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Chanes 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 Welsh, aspirate mutation of canes
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)
- Galileo Chanesb. 1917UYassociation football player
- Lorena Chanesb. 1984researcher
- Allan Chanesactor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 243 | #31,348 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 235 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 219 | #90,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 165 | #101,157 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 148 | #20,723 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 148 | #20,694 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 69 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Chanes mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of chan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chanes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 243 people named Chanes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chanes.
- Where is Chanes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chanes is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chanes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 243 people named Chanes, about 1 in 871 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chanes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chanesThe 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, “Chanes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.