Cannella

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: cinnamon

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kɑˈnɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cannella is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly
  • USUnited States
  • ARArgentina

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

cinnamon (spice)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cannella is read(measured from records)

Cannella is one spelling over 3 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.

  • English69%

    cinnamon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian9.3%

    cinnamon (spice)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    de Canna com sufixo feminino singular -ella

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Spanish8.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cannella in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Fabio Cannella, b. 1817John Matthew Cannella, b. 1908Carlo Cannella, b. 1943Carlo Cannella, b. 1963Giampiero Cannella, b. 1965Anthony Cannella, b. 1969Mirko Cannella, b. 1992nitr0, b. 1995Giacomo Cannella, b. 1997Nazzareno Cannella, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Cannella,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Cannella
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,158
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,759
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#15,248
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—187#9,655
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008176#9,530
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—129—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—80—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196154—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202440#22,077
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199130—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—27#69,004
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—27#67,696

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • 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

Where does the name Cannella come from?
cinnamon (spice) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cannella?
A machine transcription gives /kɑˈnɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Cannella mean?
In English, cinnamon
In which country does Cannella have the most bearers?
Cannella is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cannella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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