Canales
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of canal
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kanales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 354(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 519
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 675
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.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 354 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of canal
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canales 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #38 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 354 | — | Canales | 60 |
| US United States | — | 24,384 | 1 in 14K | 25K | Canales | 356 |
| PE Peru | #266 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Canales | 98 |
| CL Chile | #160 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Canales | 117 |
| NI Nicaragua | #70 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | — | Canales | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #120 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Canales | 56 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,173 | 1 in 985 | 5.2K | — | 51 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Canales 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 Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of canālis
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)
- Blanca Canalesb. 1906USPuerto Rican politician and independence advocate
- Manuel Martínez Canalesb. 1928ESSpanish footballer (1928-2014)
- Susana Canalesb. 1933ESSpanish actress (1933–2021)
- Juan Bosco Maino Canalesb. 1949CLvictim of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
- Laura Canalesb. 1954USAmerican musician
- José Antonio Canales Motiñob. 1962HNHonduran Roman Catholic bishop
- Ricardo Canalesb. 1982HNHonduran footballer
- Gustavo Canalesb. 1982ARArgentine association football player
- Nicolás Canalesb. 1985CLChilean footballer
- Sergio Canalesb. 1991ESSpanish footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,897 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.2K | #244 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Canales mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of canal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Canales?
- A machine transcription gives /kanales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Canales have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Canales in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canales.
- How common is the name Canales?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,384 people named Canales in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Canales compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Canales is the 38th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/canalesThe 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, “Canales” — the 38th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.