Cantón Surname
Approximately 218 people bear this surname
Cantón Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 135 | 1:346,311 | 19,910 |
| Mexico | 49 | 1:2,533,188 | 21,064 |
| Argentina | 10 | 1:4,274,341 | 152,056 |
| Guatemala | 4 | 1:4,020,667 | 7,726 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
The alternate forms: Canton (23,519) & Cantòn (4) are calculated separately.
Cantón Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cantón Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cantón is found most in Spain. It may also be found in the variant forms: Canton or Cantòn. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cantón? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,115,011th most frequently occurring family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 33,429,110 people. Cantón is mostly found in Europe, where 62 percent of Cantón reside; 60 percent reside in Southwestern Europe and 60 percent reside in Iberian Europe.
The surname Cantón is most frequent in Spain, where it is carried by 135 people, or 1 in 346,311. In Spain Cantón is mostly found in: Andalusia, where 29 percent reside, Madrid, where 24 percent reside and Catalonia, where 22 percent reside. Other than Spain it exists in 20 countries. It is also found in Mexico, where 22 percent reside and Argentina, where 5 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
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- 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 Cantón
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