Cantos Surname
Approximately 31,973 people bear this surname
Cantos Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 10,764 | 1:9,405 | 873 |
| Ecuador | 9,481 | 1:1,678 | 292 |
| Spain | 6,619 | 1:7,063 | 874 |
| Argentina | 1,756 | 1:24,341 | 2,031 |
| United States | 1,014 | 1:357,455 | 31,912 |
| Brazil | 517 | 1:414,070 | 15,725 |
| Saudi Arabia | 477 | 1:64,687 | 9,689 |
| Peru | 252 | 1:126,127 | 7,259 |
| France | 216 | 1:307,513 | 46,888 |
| Uruguay | 200 | 1:17,159 | 1,944 |
| Venezuela | 131 | 1:230,565 | 5,911 |
| Canada | 91 | 1:404,897 | 35,698 |
| Panama | 70 | 1:55,889 | 2,622 |
| Chile | 57 | 1:309,061 | 8,852 |
| Singapore | 43 | 1:128,086 | 5,748 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| Colombia | 29 | 1:1,647,382 | 11,290 |
| Andorra | 29 | 1:2,891 | 539 |
| Turkey | 29 | 1:2,683,497 | 81,313 |
| England | 21 | 1:2,653,241 | 94,788 |
| Australia | 18 | 1:1,499,761 | 75,721 |
| Switzerland | 16 | 1:513,307 | 36,405 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Cuba | 14 | 1:823,051 | 6,140 |
| Italy | 10 | 1:6,115,669 | 111,715 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Mexico | 6 | 1:20,687,701 | 53,861 |
| Germany | 5 | 1:16,101,092 | 397,699 |
| Paraguay | 4 | 1:1,809,186 | 12,346 |
| Belgium | 4 | 1:2,874,161 | 111,046 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1:25,109,342 | 694,541 |
The alternate forms: Cantós (6) are calculated separately.
Cantos (25) may also be a first name.
Cantos Demographics
Average Male Cantos Height
173.63 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Cantos Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cantos Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cantos is borne by more people in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It can occur as: Cantós. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cantos? popularity and diffusion
It is the 17,335th most widespread surname globally, borne by around 1 in 227,928 people. The surname Cantos occurs mostly in The Americas, where 43 percent of Cantos reside; 39 percent reside in South America and 33 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia. It is also the 2,136,160th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 25 people.
The surname is most frequently held in The Philippines, where it is carried by 10,764 people, or 1 in 9,405. In The Philippines it is most common in: Calabarzon, where 55 percent reside, Mimaropa, where 12 percent reside and National Capital Region, where 8 percent reside. Outside of The Philippines this last name is found in 59 countries. It is also common in Ecuador, where 30 percent reside and Spain, where 21 percent reside.
Cantos Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Cantos has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Cantos surname rose 50,700 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Cantos Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Cantos surname are 29.96% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 83.19% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Cantos earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Peru they earn 7.63% less than the national average, earning S/. 17,906 per year; in Colombia they earn 2.89% more than the national average, earning $23,359,400 COP per year; in United States they earn 0.86% less than the national average, earning $42,776 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.3% less than the national average, earning $45,559 CAD per year.
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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 Cantos
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