Candaş
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dear friend
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒandaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Candaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 199K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 450K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
251 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Candas in ES Spain and Canda'S in AR Argentina.
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)
dear friend
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Candaş 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.
251 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Candaş 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 Turkish, Dost, arkadaş, yoldaş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Candaş Tolga Işıkb. 1978TRTurkish journalist (born 1978)
- Candaş Yılancıb. 1987TRTurkish actor (born 1987)
- Candaş Çetinkayab. 1989TRTurkish actor (born 1989)
- Candaş ElbilTRTurkish association football referee
- Candaş ŞişmanTRTurkish artist
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Candaş mean, and where does it come from?
- dear friend Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Candaş?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒandaʃ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Candaş have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 251 people named Candaş, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candas.
- Where is Candaş most common?
- Candaş is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 199 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Candaş?
- In Spain, the national register counted 251 people named Candaş, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Candaş?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/canda%C5%9FThe 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, “Candaş”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.