Canas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine plural of cano
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kanas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Canas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 760(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 4.4K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Canas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 760 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cañas in SV El Salvador, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 2 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)feminine plural of cano
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Canas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #465 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 15 | Cañas | 87 |
| ES Spain | #605 | 9,348 | 1 in 5.3K | 9.3K | Cañas | 105 |
| SV El Salvador | #130 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 760 | — | Cañas | 33 |
| VE Venezuela | #601 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Cañas | 33 |
| US United States | — | 4,832 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Canas | 246 |
| CR Costa Rica | #403 | 405 | 1 in 13K | 405 | Cañas | 21 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)Canas 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.
— žr. Cándaras
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of canō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, Cannes (a city in France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, Iš vok. Zahn (M. Gottschald,
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)- Dario Canasb. 1884PTSports shooter (1884-1966)
- Darysabel Isalesb. 1934USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican opera singer and actress
- Alicia Canas Cortazarb. 1947ESvisual artist
- Vitalino Canasb. 1959PTPortuguese lawyer, professor and politician
- Montse Canasb. 1969ESCatalan politician
- Alberto Canasb. 1980SESwedish music producer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,002 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 888 | #4,922 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 888 | #4,921 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #26,557 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Canas mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine plural of cano Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Canas?
- In Spanish /kanas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Canas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Canas in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cañas.
- How common is the name Canas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,348 people named Canas, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Canas compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Canas is the 465th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/canasThe 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, “Canas” — the 465th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.