Kanaris
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑnəɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kanaris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 40K
- GRGreece≈1 in 176K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
157 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Καναρης in GR Greece.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanaris 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 157 | 1 in 2.1M | 162 | Kanaris | 88 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Kanaris | 47 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 600K | — | Kanaris | 11 |
| IT Italy | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Kanaris | 3 |
| GR Greece | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 2 | Καναρης | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 10 | Kanaris | 22 |
| RS Serbia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Kanaris | 1 |
157 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Konstantinos Kanarisb. 1793GRGreek admiral and politician
- Miltiadis Kanarisb. 1822GRGreek admiral and politician (1822–1901)
- Lykourgos Kanarisb. 1824GRGreek naval officer and lawyer
- Maria Kanarisb. 1828daughter of Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Kanaris
- Aristidis Kanarisb. 1831GRGreek army officer
- Athina Kanarisb. 1861GRdaughter of naval officer and lawyer Lykourgos Kanaris
- Leonidas Kanarisb. 1881GRGreek soldier
- Leonidas Kanarisb. 1963GRGreek composer and guitarist
- Nikolaos KanarisGRGreek politician and diplomat
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 134 | #119,644 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- How do you pronounce Kanaris?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑnəɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kanaris have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 157 people named Kanaris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanaris.
- How common is the name Kanaris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 157 people named Kanaris in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanarisThe 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, “Kanaris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.