Canapa

surname · Latin script

Meaning: do lat. cannabis; recorda o cultivo e comércio de fibras de cânhamo

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

/kənɑːpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Canapa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Uruguay (measured from records)

154 people

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

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:

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)

recorded in Portuguese

do lat. cannabis; recorda o cultivo e comércio de fibras de cânhamo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Canapa 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 Canapa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay1541 in 22K154——
BR Brazil421 in 5M42Canapa16
AR Argentina131 in 3.5M13——
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10—1
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——

154 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

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

  • Thai given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written Kannapa, แคนาดา, แคนนาดา, Cánada, Canada

22 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)

Canapa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Canepa

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Italian, hemp (Cannabis sativa)

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

  • In Latin, hemp

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

  • In nah, Por aleunluear

    as a wordVocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Canapa,
InformalHi Canapa,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Canapa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—154—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—42#118,404
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—13—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202410#60,931
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#194,217

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Canapa?
A machine transcription gives /kənɑːpə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Canapa mean?
Recorded meaning: do lat. cannabis; recorda o cultivo e comércio de fibras de cânhamo
In which country does Canapa have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 154 people named Canapa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Canapa most common?
Canapa is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Canapa?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 154 people named Canapa, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Canapa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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