Canipan Surname

2,843,861st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 47 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Chile
Highest density in:
Chile

Canipan Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Canipan Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Chile301:587,21614,299
Indonesia121:11,020,766390,383
Argentina31:14,247,805235,975
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150

The alternate forms: Cañipan (17) & Canipán (1) are calculated separately.

Canipan (13) may also be a first name.

Canipan Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Canipan Come From? nationality or country of origin

Canipan is more frequently found in Chile than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Cañipan or Canipán. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Canipan? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 2,843,861st most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 155,054,168 people. The last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 74 percent of Canipan live; 74 percent live in South America and 70 percent live in Hispanic Southern America. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held forename in the world. It is borne by 13 people.

It is most common in Chile, where it is carried by 30 people, or 1 in 587,216. In Chile Canipan is mostly concentrated in: Los Lagos Region, where 73 percent are found, Santiago Metropolitan Region, where 20 percent are found and Araucanía Region, where 3 percent are found. Other than Chile it occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in Indonesia, where 26 percent are found and Argentina, where 6 percent are found.

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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 Canipan
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