Cañellas

surname · Latin script

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

/kaɲeʎas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cañellas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 193K
  • 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.

Spain (measured from records)

2,792 people

Sources
87 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Canellas in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cañellas 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 Cañellas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2,7921 in 18K2.8KCañellas61
BR Brazil7831 in 270K783Cañellas8
AR Argentina2361 in 193K236Cañellas21
UY Uruguay1661 in 20K166Cañellas9
US United States1471 in 2.3M166Canellas87
BO Bolivia≈77 est.≈1 in 151K—Cañellas9
PY Paraguay≈57 est.≈1 in 126K—Cañellas6

2,792 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Cañellas is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cańellas, Canellas

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Chinese

    Also written Canellas

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Canellas

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Canellas

  • Bulgarian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Canellas

19 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Josep Maria Cañellas, b. 1856Anton Cañellas, b. 1923David Marca i Cañellas, b. 1928Gabriel Cañellas i Fons, b. 1941Salvador Cañellas, b. 1944Margarita Victoria García, b. 1984Joan Cañellas, b. 1986Xavier Cañellas, b. 1997Joan González, b. 2002

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cañellas,Dear Cañellas, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cañellas,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cañellas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#1,821
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.8K#1,821
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—236—

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Cañellas?
A machine transcription gives /kaɲeʎas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cañellas have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Cañellas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cañellas.
Where is Cañellas most common?
Cañellas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cañellas?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,792 people named Cañellas, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Cañellas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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