Canai Surname
Approximately 101 people bear this surname
Canai Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 55 | 1:13,946,643 | 236,652 |
| Indonesia | 16 | 1:8,265,575 | 327,276 |
| Saint Lucia | 13 | 1:13,752 | 1,221 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 6 | 1:18,396 | 2,503 |
| Cambodia | 5 | 1:3,097,429 | 8,690 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
The alternate forms: Cañai (17) are calculated separately.
Canai (210) may also be a first name.
Canai Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Canai Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Canai occurs more in India more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Cañai. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Canai? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,839,022nd most frequently occurring family name at a global level, held by around 1 in 72,153,920 people. The surname Canai is mostly found in Asia, where 76 percent of Canai live; 54 percent live in South Asia and 54 percent live in Indo-South Asia. It is also the 624,169th most widespread first name globally, held by 210 people.
The surname is most frequently occurring in India, where it is carried by 55 people, or 1 in 13,946,643. In India it is primarily concentrated in: Gujarat, where 95 percent reside and Tamil Nadu, where 5 percent reside. Not including India this surname is found in 8 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 16 percent reside and Saint Lucia, where 13 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Canai
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