Canna
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kanə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 126K
- KEKenya≈1 in 468K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Apparently from the name of a genus of plants that have attractive, brightly coloured flowers and are widely cultivated in parts of the world with a warm climate. This is now relatively well established as a first name in Australia. The botanical name represents Latin canna ‘reed’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Canna is read(measured from records)
Canna is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
plant
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Canna in Spanish.
- Italian7.4%
cane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. canna; caniço, taquara, junco; também pode indicar oriundo da cidade meridional homônima
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Hindi5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Canna in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | Canna | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 126K | listed | Canna | 21 |
| US United States | 202 | 1 in 1.6M | 204 | Canna | 113 |
| KE Kenya | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Canna | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | Canna | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | Canna | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Canna | 14 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Canna 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.
Apparently from the name of a genus of plants that have attractive, brightly coloured flowers and are widely cultivated in parts of the world with a warm climate. This is now relatively well established as a first name in Australia. The botanical name represents Latin canna ‘reed’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In sco, Orkney form of cannae (“cannot”)
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)
- Giovanni Cannab. 1832ITItalian classical philologist (1832-1915)
- Rinaldo Cannab. 1926ITItalian politician
- Achille Cannab. 1932ITItalian basketball player
- Carlo Cannab. 1992ITItalian rugby union player
- Scott W CannaUSresearcher
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 202 | #91,221 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #45,692 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Canna come from?
- Apparently from the name of a genus of plants that have attractive, brightly coloured flowers and are widely cultivated in parts of the world with a warm climate. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Canna?
- In the etymology graph, Cannata is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Canna?
- A machine transcription gives /kanə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Canna mean?
- In English, Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
- In which country does Canna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Canna in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canna.
- How common is the name Canna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 202 people named Canna in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cannaThe 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, “Canna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.