Ganau

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Ganau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From ganī (“see”) + -au.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 315K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 404K
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.7M

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)

159 people

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 315K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From ganī (“see”) + -au.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ganau 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 Ganau is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1591 in 315K159Ganau45
IT Italy≈160 est.≈1 in 404KlistedGanau15
VE Venezuela≈10 est.≈1 in 3M—Ganau7
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 48Mlisted—4
GB United Kingdom≈5 est.≈1 in 13M—Ganau3
PT Portugal≈4 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Ganau3

159 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); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ganau is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gănău

25 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ganau 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 Hausa, a male given name given to a boy born at the new moon

    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)

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 Ganau,Dear Ganau, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ganau,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Ganau
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—159#19,639
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—159#19,583
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Ganau mean, and where does it come from?
From ganī (“see”) + -au. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Ganau?
A machine transcription gives /xanau/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Ganau have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 159 people named Ganau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganau.
Where is Ganau most common?
Ganau is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 315 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ganau?
In Spain, the national register counted 159 people named Ganau, about 1 in 315 thousand residents.

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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, “Ganau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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