Cana

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Cane

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cana is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 63K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 72K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,300 people, est.

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Caña in VE Venezuela, PE Peru, ES Spain and 2 more and Caná in GT Guatemala.

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)

Old English personal name; surviving in Cane

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cana 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 Cana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#614≈5,300 est.≈1 in 5.4K—Caña21
BR Brazil—2,0721 in 102K2.1KCana51
GT Guatemala—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 16K—Caná15
PH Philippines—≈930 est.≈1 in 117K—Caña29
ES Spain—7921 in 63K792Caña72
PE Peru—≈440 est.≈1 in 72K—Caña38
UY Uruguay—481 in 71K48Caña8

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); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, United States, Philippines, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Caña, Caná, C'Ana, Cânâ, Çana

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines

    Also written Caña, Çana, Cânâ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Caña

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Çana

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Caña, Çana

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Caña

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cana 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, The site where Jesus miraculously turned water into wine.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Biblical town

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Kurdish, A graceful beloved who is cherished like a soul and amiable

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Hungarian, gift, pleasing thing

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

  • In Hungarian, something beautiful

    as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian

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)

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 36 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Cana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.1K#4,725
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—792#5,444
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—792#5,442
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—48—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Cana mean, and where does it come from?
Old English personal name; surviving in Cane Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Cana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Cana in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caña.
How common is the name Cana?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,072 people named Cana, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
How common is Cana compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Cana is the 614th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cana” — the 614th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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