Cancian
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante de Canzian (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/kɐ̃siɐn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Cancian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 2,427 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 87K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 98K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 120Kfew records
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
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
2,427 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cancian
- Portuguese:/kɐ̃siɐn/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/kansian/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variante de Canzian
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Cancian is found
(measured from records)Cancian 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 | 2,427 | 1 in 87K | 2.4K | Cancian | 86 |
| IT Italy | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Cancian | 23 |
| AR Argentina | 463 | 1 in 98K | 463 | Cancian | 39 |
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 48 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Cancian | 43 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Cancian | 4 |
2,427 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aurora Cancianb. 1949ITItalian actress and voice actress
- Antonio Cancianb. 1951ITItalian politician
- Abigail Aldereteb. 1987PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan MC, model, actress
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cancian mean, and where does it come from?
- variante de Canzian Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Cancian?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /kɐ̃siɐn/; in Spanish /kansian/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cancian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Cancian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cancian. After it come Italy, Argentina, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cancian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,427 people named Cancian, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cancian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cancianThe 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, “Cancian” — ranked 4108th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.