Canga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kanɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 61K
- ARArgentina1 in 141K
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.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Çanga in TR Türkiye.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canga 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.
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Canga is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, yoke (frame for joining oxen by the neck)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, fish: Cichlidae: Tilapia schwebischi
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Portuguese, carrying pole, milkmaid's yoke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, ewe (female sheep)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pwn, spring onion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, canyon
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)
- Jesús María Cangab. 1953ESSpanish politician
- María Cangáb. 1962ECEcuadorian judoka
- Diego Canga Fanob. 1964ESSpanish civil servant
- Cristian Cangab. 1991COColombian association football player
- Dilan CangaTRTurkish association football coach
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 814 | #5,309 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 814 | #5,307 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 323 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Canga?
- A machine transcription gives /kanɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Canga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Canga in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canga.
- How common is the name Canga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 814 people named Canga, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Canga compared with other names?
- In Angola, Canga is the 326th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Canga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cangaThe 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, “Canga” — the 326th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.