Canó

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Canó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 381(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 647
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 660

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)

77,356 people

#729 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
408 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 381 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CanóLatin(measured from records)
카노Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cano in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 4 more and Caño in UY Uruguay.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Canó: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Canó
  1. Latincānus“white“white, hoary”(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Italic*kaznos(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱas-(measured from records)

Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-.

Sources 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Canó 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.

Where Canó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#4677,3561 in 64777KCano221
CO Colombia#91≈71,000 est.≈1 in 68734Cano169
US United States—37,3681 in 8.9K37KCano408
AR Argentina#21330,6831 in 1.5K31KCano118
PH Philippines#221≈23,000 est.≈1 in 4.8K—Cano84
NI Nicaragua#51≈16,000 est.≈1 in 381—Cano34
PY Paraguay#130≈11,000 est.≈1 in 660—Cano41
UY Uruguay—3,7091 in 9133.7KCaño43

77,356 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Canó is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Cano, Caño, C̰a̰n̰o̰, Canò, Canô

  • Croatian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Croatia, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Cano, Čano, Ćano, Caño, Caňo

  • Japanese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan, Spain, Peru

    Also written Cano, Caño, Canò

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Canó 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 Catalan, cannon

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Canó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Canó mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
In which country does Canó have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Canó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cano.
How common is the name Canó?
In Spain, the national register counted 77,356 people named Canó, about 1 in 647 residents.
How common is Canó compared with other names?
In Spain, Canó is the 46th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Canó” — the 46th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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