Cane Surname
Approximately 19,452 people bear this surname
Cane Surname Definition:
(1) Local 'of Caen,' in Normandy; v. Cain (a).
Hugh de Caen. Close Rolls
Richard de Cane. Rolls of Parliament.
Roger de Cane, Lincolnshire 1273. Hundred Rolls.
(a) Bapt. 'the son of Cane.' 'Cane, Cana, or Canus appears in the Domesday of Sussex as a baptismal name': Lower, Patronymica Britannica.
Read More About This SurnameCane Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 3,907 | 1:15,653 | 2,601 |
| United States | 3,129 | 1:115,839 | 12,507 |
| England | 2,462 | 1:22,631 | 3,160 |
| Philippines | 2,394 | 1:42,288 | 6,706 |
| Australia | 1,684 | 1:16,031 | 2,258 |
| Argentina | 1,164 | 1:36,721 | 3,072 |
| Albania | 619 | 1:4,708 | 890 |
| France | 537 | 1:123,692 | 18,779 |
| Haiti | 491 | 1:21,759 | 1,764 |
| Canada | 453 | 1:81,337 | 9,068 |
| South Africa | 324 | 1:167,215 | 18,644 |
| Brazil | 316 | 1:677,450 | 24,995 |
| Iran | 199 | 1:385,842 | 25,011 |
| New Zealand | 179 | 1:25,298 | 4,427 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Turkey | 143 | 1:544,206 | 30,161 |
| Paraguay | 134 | 1:54,006 | 1,523 |
| Spain | 114 | 1:410,106 | 22,221 |
| Scotland | 102 | 1:52,488 | 4,471 |
| Indonesia | 73 | 1:1,811,633 | 116,472 |
| Romania | 64 | 1:313,717 | 27,893 |
| Taiwan | 60 | 1:390,746 | 3,053 |
| India | 59 | 1:13,001,108 | 227,026 |
| Chile | 56 | 1:314,580 | 8,983 |
| Greece | 46 | 1:240,865 | 36,930 |
| Wales | 41 | 1:75,476 | 6,450 |
| Thailand | 38 | 1:1,858,904 | 228,660 |
| Mexico | 35 | 1:3,546,463 | 24,778 |
| Singapore | 34 | 1:161,991 | 6,884 |
| North Macedonia | 31 | 1:67,789 | 6,732 |
| Switzerland | 31 | 1:264,933 | 21,684 |
| Latvia | 28 | 1:73,216 | 10,778 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Russia | 28 | 1:5,147,252 | 226,919 |
| Belgium | 25 | 1:459,866 | 46,150 |
| Peru | 23 | 1:1,381,918 | 21,725 |
| Costa Rica | 21 | 1:227,622 | 2,745 |
| Netherlands | 19 | 1:888,799 | 62,169 |
| Ireland | 18 | 1:261,608 | 9,673 |
| Northern Ireland | 15 | 1:123,002 | 7,073 |
| Germany | 13 | 1:6,192,728 | 213,814 |
| Uruguay | 13 | 1:263,981 | 18,914 |
| Nigeria | 10 | 1:17,714,276 | 277,641 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Monaco | 9 | 1:4,118 | 434 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 1:2,205,463 | 97,905 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Venezuela | 5 | 1:6,040,815 | 47,898 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1:1,833,871 | 6,220 |
| Ivory Coast | 4 | 1:5,767,808 | 55,416 |
| Mozambique | 4 | 1:6,815,392 | 4,272 |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 1:1,372,278 | 6,164 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1:1,187,123 | 48,973 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Vietnam | 3 | 1:30,882,018 | 4,101 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 1:22,761,348 | 425,733 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Barbados | 1 | 1:287,448 | 2,772 |
| Botswana | 1 | 1:2,186,929 | 30,250 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 1:63,893 | 2,384 |
| East Timor | 1 | 1:1,215,928 | 507 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:64,439 | 2,137 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Kosovo | 1 | 1:1,861,869 | 14,990 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1:51,937,985 | 2,166 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 1:112,659 | 1,704 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 114 | 1:38,858 | 3,578 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 1,916 | 1:12,722 | 1,921 |
| Scotland | 100 | 1:37,432 | 2,932 |
| Wales | 54 | 1:29,045 | 1,617 |
| Isle of Man | 2 | 1:27,135 | 1,659 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,843 | 1:17,664 | 2,253 |
The alternate forms: Cané (87), Canè (80), Cañe (10), Çane (7) & Cāne (2) are calculated separately.
Cane (2,862) may also be a first name.
Cane Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(1) Local 'of Caen,' in Normandy; v. Cain (a).
Hugh de Caen. Close Rolls
Richard de Cane. Rolls of Parliament.
Roger de Cane, Lincolnshire 1273. Hundred Rolls.
(a) Bapt. 'the son of Cane.' 'Cane, Cana, or Canus appears in the Domesday of Sussex as a baptismal name': Lower, Patronymica Britannica.
Adam Cane, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Alicia Cane, Oxfordshire, ibid.
Walter Cane, Huntingdonshire, ibid.
(3) Bapt. for Cain, which see.
1747. Married — Philip Watkins and Jane Cane: St. George's Chapel, Mayfair.
= Cain(e, q.v., esp. French and? Teutonic
Cane, Cana, or Canus, appears in the Domesd. of Sussex, as a baptismal name, and as a surname it is still found in that county. See English Surn., i. 29.
Contracted from Mac Cathain, ‘Cathan's Son'. This name may be rendered 'warrior'(cath, 'a battle’).The O’Cathains, now O'Kanes, were of the race of Eoghan, who was son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, Monarch of Ireland, who died a.d. 406.
'Eoghan Ua Cathain, abbot . . . died a.d. 980.'
Richard Cane of Normandy, 1180; Warm, Odo, William, Thurstan Cani, 1180-95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Hugh, Robert, Walter Cane of England, c. 1272 (Rotuli Hundredorum).
Cane or Caine is one of the most ancient of Sussex names, having been represented in the parish of Ripe from the time of Edward the Confessor to the present day (L.). Cane appears in Domesday for Sussex as a baptismal name (L.), and as a family name Cane was also to be found in the 13th century in Oxfordshire, Hunts, and Lincolnshire (H. R.). The vicar of Findon in 1725 bore the name of Cane (D.). It is also to be found in the adjacent county of Hants; whilst in Dorset it takes the form of Caines.
Cane Demographics
Average Cane Salary in
United States
$42,264 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Cane Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cane Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cane is found in Italy more than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant: Cané, Canè, Cañe, Çane or Cāne. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cane? popularity and diffusion
Cane is the 27,645th most widespread last name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 374,643 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 42 percent of Cane live; 21 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 20 percent live in Italic Europe. It is also the 136,024th most commonly used first name internationally It is held by 2,862 people.
The surname Cane is most widespread in Italy, where it is borne by 3,907 people, or 1 in 15,653. In Italy Cane is primarily concentrated in: Piedmont, where 54 percent live, Emilia-Romagna, where 15 percent live and Liguria, where 11 percent live. Barring Italy this surname occurs in 98 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 16 percent live and England, where 13 percent live.
Cane Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Cane has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cane surname rose 110 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 128 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 102 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it decreased 24 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 84 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Cane Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the last name is principally Catholic (78%) in Ireland.
In The United States Cane are 3.41% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 50.18% registered with the political party.
The amount Cane earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 53.72% more than the national average, earning €46,162 per year; in Peru they earn 119.29% more than the national average, earning S/. 42,509 per year; in South Africa they earn 53.72% more than the national average, earning R 365,304 per year; in United States they earn 2.05% less than the national average, earning $42,264 USD per year and in Canada they earn 13.1% more than the national average, earning $56,192 CAD per year.
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