Cantanhede
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kɐ̃tɐɲeðɨ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cantanhede is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Celtic *kant- (“big rock”); attested in the 11th century as Medieval Latin Cantonieti.
- BRBrazil1 in 13K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- ESSpain1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
15,956 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Proto-Celtic *kant- (“big rock”); attested in the 11th century as Medieval Latin Cantonieti.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cantanhede 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 | 15,956 | 1 in 13K | 16K | Cantanhede | 2 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Cantanhede | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Cantanhede | 5 |
15,956 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 16K | #949 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #145,607 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cantanhede mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Celtic *kant- (“big rock”); attested in the 11th century as Medieval Latin Cantonieti. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cantanhede?
- A machine transcription gives /kɐ̃tɐɲeðɨ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Cantanhede have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Cantanhede, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cantanhede.
- Where is Cantanhede most common?
- Cantanhede is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cantanhede?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,956 people named Cantanhede, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cantanhedeThe 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, “Cantanhede”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.