Cania
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 709K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 709K (inferred from the name graph)
87 people
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cania 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 87 | 1 in 2.4M | 87 | Cania | 11 |
| PL Poland | 54 | 1 in 709K | 27 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Cania | 14 |
| US United States | — | — | 6 | Cania | 26 |
| AO Angola | — | — | — | Cania | 2 |
87 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
Cania 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 Latin, female dog
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #70,261 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,303 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #73,990 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #197,359 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Cania?
- A machine transcription gives /kəniə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cania have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 87 people named Cania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cania.
- Where is Cania most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cania is densest in Poland — about 1 in 709 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cania?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 87 people named Cania, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cania?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caniaThe 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, “Cania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.