Cañar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a group of reeds
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cañar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 202K
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,070 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Canar in PH Philippines, US United States, NI Nicaragua.
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)
a group of reeds
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cañar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #614 | 7,070 | 1 in 2.4K | 7.1K | Cañar | 25 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Cañar | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Canar | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 394 | 1 in 127K | 394 | Cañar | 27 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 165 | Canar | 86 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 531K | — | Canar | 4 |
7,070 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cañar mean, and where does it come from?
- a group of reeds Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cañar have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Cañar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cañar.
- Where is Cañar most common?
- Cañar is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cañar?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 7,070 people named Cañar in 2024, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Cañar compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Cañar is the 614th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1arThe 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, “Cañar” — the 614th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.