Canoy
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkænɔɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Canoy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Réunion it is the 55th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Possibly from Hokkien 橄欖孫／橄榄孙 (ka-núi-sun, “great-grandson (in a male lineage)”). Compare Tagalog Singson.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 614K
- RERéunion≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly from Hokkien 橄欖孫／橄榄孙 (ka-núi-sun, “great-grandson (in a male lineage)”). Compare Tagalog Singson.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Canoy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #181 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Canoy | 86 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Canoy | 10 |
| RE Réunion | #55 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Canoy | 1 |
| US United States | — | 542 | 1 in 614K | 856 | Canoy | 166 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 344K | — | Canoy | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Canoy | 10 |
| SM San Marino | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Canoy | 2 |
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. 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)
Canoy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry
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)
- Henry Canoyb. 1923PHFilipino businessman (1923-2008)
- Reuben Canoyb. 1929PHFilipino politician (1929–2022)
- Dexter CanoyGBresearcher
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 856 | #29,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 542 | #40,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 467 | #43,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Canoy mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from Hokkien 橄欖孫／橄榄孙 (ka-núi-sun, “great-grandson (in a male lineage)”). Compare Tagalog Singson. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Canoy?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkænɔɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Canoy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Canoy in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canoy.
- How common is the name Canoy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 542 people named Canoy in 2010, about 1 in 614 thousand residents.
- How common is Canoy compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Canoy is the 181st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/canoyThe 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, “Canoy” — the 181st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.