Cancún

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Cancún (a city in Quintana Roo, Mexico)

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

Cancún 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 Cancun in ES Spain.

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)

Cancún (a city in Quintana Roo, Mexico)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Cancún 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)

Cancún is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cancun, Cancùn

  • English name7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Cancun, Çançun, Cancùn

1 further group 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)

Cancún is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A resort city in Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico, on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cancún 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 Cancún mean, and where does it come from?
Cancún (a city in Quintana Roo, Mexico) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Cancún have the most bearers?
Cancún 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, “Cancún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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