Cañte

surname · Latin script

Cañte is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Cante; this surname is predominantly found in Guatemala.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 43K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 82K

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.

Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 people, est.

Record sources
113 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cante in GT Guatemala, CO Colombia, IT Italy and 1 more.

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)

Borrowed from Spanish Cante; this surname is predominantly found in Guatemala.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cañte 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 Cañte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GT Guatemala#215≈3,700 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Cante26
CO Colombia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 43K2Cante50
IT Italy—≈760 est.≈1 in 82K—Cante10
FR France—≈730 est.≈1 in 93K98—1
BR Brazil—6651 in 318K665——
CL Chile—≈150 est.≈1 in 123K—Cante9

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cante, Canté, C-Ante, Çanté, Çante

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cañte under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cañte mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Cante; this surname is predominantly found in Guatemala. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Cañte have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Cañte in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cante.
How common is the name Cañte?
In Brazil, the national register counted 665 people named Cañte, about 1 in 318 thousand residents.
How common is Cañte compared with other names?
In Guatemala, Cañte is the 215th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Cañte?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1te

The 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, “Cañte” — the 215th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Cañte parses inside a full name →