Canova
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante regional de Caneva
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑˈnoʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 50K
- BRBrazil1 in 63K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,376 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante regional de Caneva
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canova 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 | 3,376 | 1 in 63K | 3.4K | Canova | 85 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Canova | 40 |
| US United States | 1,294 | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Canova | 89 |
| AR Argentina | 902 | 1 in 50K | 902 | Canova | 55 |
| PE Peru | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Canova | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | 211 | 1 in 40K | 211 | Canova | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 73 | 1 in 46K | 73 | Canova | 8 |
3,376 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Canova 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 di Casa
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Croatian, talijanski kipar, istaknuti predstavnik neoklasicizma
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Francesco Canova da Milanob. 1497ITItalian composer, 1497-1543
- Antonio Canovab. 1757ITItalian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)
- Giovanni Canovab. 1880ITfencer (1880–1960)
- Judy Canovab. 1913USAmerican comedian, actress, singer, and radio personality (1913-1983)
- Renato Canovab. 1944ITItalian long-distance running coach (track and field)
- Diana Canovab. 1953USAmerican actress
- Gianni Canovab. 1954ITItalian film critic and journalist
- Civan Canovab. 1955TRTurkish actor and playwright (1955–2022)
- Michele Canovab. 1972ITItalian record producer
- José Canovab. 1992PEPeruvian footballer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.4K | #3,099 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,528 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 902 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 211 | #5,991 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 73 | — |
| 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 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Canova mean, and where does it come from?
- variante regional de Caneva Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Canova?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈnoʊvə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Canova have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Canova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canova.
- How common is the name Canova?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,376 people named Canova, about 1 in 63 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/canovaThe 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, “Canova”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.