Canosa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of canoso
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kanosa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 17K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 18K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 78K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,782 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of canoso
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canosa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 2,782 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Canosa | 108 |
| AR Argentina | 2,685 | 1 in 17K | 2.7K | Canosa | 58 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Canosa | 19 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Canosa | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 114K | listed | Canosa | 42 |
| UY Uruguay | 537 | 1 in 6.3K | 537 | Canosa | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 199 | 1 in 42K | 199 | Canosa | 9 |
2,782 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Santiago Aguilar Canosab. 1930ES1930-
- Romano Canosab. 1935ITItalian magistrate and historian (1935-2010)
- Yamandú Canosab. 1954UYUruguayan artist
- Pedro Feduchi Canosab. 1959ESSpanish architect
- Hans Canosab. 1970USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Viviana Canosab. 1971ARArgentinian TV personality
- Francesc Canosa i Farranb. 1975ESCatalan journalist, writer and professor
- María Canosab. 1978ESGalician civil engineer
- Flor Canosab. 1978ARscreenwriter and author
- Tamara Canosab. 1983ESSpanish actress
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) | — | 2.8K | #1,827 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,827 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.7K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 537 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 199 | #6,298 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Canosa mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of canoso Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Canosa?
- A machine transcription gives /kanosa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Canosa have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Canosa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canosa.
- Where is Canosa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Canosa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Canosa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,782 people named Canosa, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/canosaThe 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, “Canosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.