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 is more commonly found in The Philippines than any other country or territory. It may be found in the variant forms: Canales, Canalès or Canalés. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cañales? popularity and diffusion
It is the 368,021st most commonly occurring last name in the world, held by around 1 in 7,451,478 people. The surname Cañales occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Cañales reside; 100 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 100 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.
This last name is most frequently held in The Philippines, where it is carried by 976 people, or 1 in 103,728. In The Philippines Cañales is most frequent in: Zamboanga Peninsula, where 29 percent are found, Central Visayas, where 17 percent are found and Northern Mindanao, where 15 percent are found. Excluding The Philippines this surname occurs in 2 countries. It is also found in Argentina, where 0 percent are found and Venezuela, where 0 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 Cañales
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