Cancian
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cancian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variante de Canzian.
- BRBrazil1 in 87K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 98K
- ITItaly≈1 in 105K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
2,427 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante de Canzian
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(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 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 105K | listed | Cancian | 23 |
| AR Argentina | 463 | 1 in 98K | 463 | Cancian | 39 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 229K | 48 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | listed | Cancian | 43 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | 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)
- Sante Cancianb. 1902ITItalian painter (1902-1947)
- Frank Cancianb. 1934USAmerican anthropologist and documentary photographer
- Beniamino Cancianb. 1936ITItalian association football player (1936-2025)
- Domenico Cancianb. 1947ITItalian bishop
- Aurora Cancianb. 1949ITItalian actress and voice actress
- Antonio Cancianb. 1951ITItalian politician
- Jean-Louis Cancianb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Lorenzo Cancianb. 1958ITItalian alpine skier
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #4,108 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 463 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Cancian mean, and where does it come from?
- variante de Canzian Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Cancian have the most bearers?
- 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.
- Where is Cancian most common?
- Cancian is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 87 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cancian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,427 people named Cancian, about 1 in 87 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, “Cancian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.