Cañales Surname
Approximately 978 people bear this surname
Cañales Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 976 | 1:103,728 | 18,029 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Canales (219,174), Canalès (3) & Canalés (1) are calculated separately.
Cañales Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cañales Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cañales occurs most in The Philippines. It may appear in the variant forms: Canales, Canalès or Canalés. Click here to see other possible spellings of Cañales.
How Common Is The Last Name Cañales? popularity and diffusion
The last name Cañales is the 368,021st most widely held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 7,451,478 people. The surname occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Cañales reside; 100 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 100 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.
It is most commonly occurring in The Philippines, where it is held by 976 people, or 1 in 103,728. In The Philippines it is most common in: Zamboanga Peninsula, where 29 percent live, Central Visayas, where 17 percent live and Northern Mindanao, where 15 percent live. Other than The Philippines it occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 0 percent live and Venezuela, where 0 percent live.
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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 Cañales
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