Candia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo de uma das duas cidades setentrionais chamadas Candia; denominação ligada a Candida
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kandia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Candia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Paraguay than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 375(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Paraguay (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 375 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo de uma das duas cidades setentrionais chamadas Candia; denominação ligada a Candida
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Candia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY Paraguay | #70 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 375 | — | Candia | 49 |
| AR Argentina | #379 | 17,271 | 1 in 2.6K | 17K | Candia | 88 |
| CL Chile | #196 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Candia | 108 |
| PE Peru | #686 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Candia | 59 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Candia | 20 |
| BO Bolivia | #138 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Candia | 42 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Candia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The Mediterranean island of Crete.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mzs, lamp, oil lamp
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marcello Candiab. 1916ITItalian businessman (1916–1983)
- Ernesto Candiab. 1921ARArgentinian association football player
- Salvador Candiab. 1924BRBrazilian architect (1924-1991)
- Patricio Yáñezb. 1961CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Bibiana Candiab. 1977ESSpanish writer and journalist (1977-)
- Francesco Candiab. 1980ITItalian priest and journalist (born 1980)
- Christian Di Candiab. 1981UYUruguayan politician
- Ronald Huthb. 1989PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan association football player
- Carlos Labrínb. 1990CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer (born 1990)
- Jhonatan Candiab. 1995UYUruguayan association football player
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 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17K | — |
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
- In which country does Candia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Candia in Paraguay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candia.
- How do you pronounce Candia?
- A machine transcription gives /kandia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Candia mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo de uma das duas cidades setentrionais chamadas Candia; denominação ligada a Candida
- How common is the name Candia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 17,271 people named Candia, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Candia compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Candia is the 70th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/candiaThe 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, “Candia” — the 70th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.