Cannavo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cannavo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first-person singular imperfect indicative of cannare.
- USUnited States1 in 796K(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 32K
- ITItaly≈1 in 67K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
first-person singular imperfect indicative of cannare
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cannavo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Cannavo | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | Cannavo | 30 |
| US United States | 418 | 1 in 796K | 438 | Cannavo | 166 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Cannavo | 55 |
| AR Argentina | 142 | 1 in 320K | 142 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | Cannavo | 5 |
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 2000; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Cannavo 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 Italian, variante masculina de Cannava
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Canova
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Ezequiel Cannavob. 2002ARfootballer
- Alessandro CannavoUSresearcher
- Salvatore CannavoITresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 438 | #45,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 418 | #50,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 402 | #55,187 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 142 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 1
- 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 Cannavo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular imperfect indicative of cannare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cannavo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Cannavo in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cannavo.
- How common is the name Cannavo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 418 people named Cannavo in 2010, about 1 in 796 thousand residents.
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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, “Cannavo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.