Cancun

loc · Latin script

Meaning: city, Mexico

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

Cancun is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico
  • GTGuatemala
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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:

Locally spelled Cancún in MX Mexico, CO Colombia, GT Guatemala and 1 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)

city, Mexico

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cancun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Cancun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico—Cancún19
CO Colombia—Cancún1
GT Guatemala—Cancún1
PE Peru—Cancún2
ES Spain—Cancun3

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.

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Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cancun is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Cancún, Çançun, Cancùn

  • French name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cancùn, Cancún

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Çançun

10 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cancun under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cancun mean, and where does it come from?
city, Mexico Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Cancun have the most bearers?
Cancun is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled cancún.

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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, “Cancun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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