Cańa
surname · Latin script
Cańa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 63K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
- ARArgentina1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
2,072 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)subst. 1. b., mold. (17 A I 127) ; munt. (Cat ; 16 B II 171). 2. Cane soltuz (Isp ; -a (16 B VI 286). 3. Caneia, Ion, mold. (Sd VII 323) ; Can/escu (Buftea) ; -eqti = Ctineqti s. (Cat.). §§ 2-5 se pot explica si din Raducanu, prin afereza. Candal/a, -e v. Scandal 2.
Cited for this meaning 5
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cańa 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 | 2,072 | 1 in 102K | 2.1K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 792 | 1 in 63K | 792 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 536 | 1 in 85K | 536 | — | — |
| US United States | 380 | 1 in 875K | 637 | — | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 63 | 1 in 133K | 63 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | — | — |
2,072 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Cańa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Cańa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cańa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cańa is densest in Spain — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cańa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,072 people named Cańa, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cańa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C5%84aThe 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, “Cańa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.