Cañals Surname
Approximately 17 people bear this surname
Cañals Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 16 | 1:221,884 | 2,323 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
The alternate forms: Canals (6,548) are calculated separately.
Cañals Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cañals Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cañals is held by more people in Puerto Rico than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: Canals. Click here for further possible spellings of Cañals.
How Common Is The Last Name Cañals? popularity and diffusion
It is the 4,772,636th most widely held surname internationally, held by around 1 in 428,679,172 people. The surname Cañals is mostly found in The Americas, where 100 percent of Cañals live; 94 percent live in Caribbean and 94 percent live in Hispano-Caribbean.
The surname is most frequently held in Puerto Rico, where it is carried by 16 people, or 1 in 221,884. In Puerto Rico Cañals is primarily concentrated in: Arecibo, where 75 percent are found, Caguas, where 6 percent are found and Carolina, where 6 percent are found. Aside from Puerto Rico this last name is found in one country. It is also found in Mexico, where 6 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canals | 94 | 6,548 | / |
| Cañiales | 86 | 1 | / |
| Canales | 77 | 219,174 | / |
| Cañoles | 77 | 457 | / |
| Coñales | 77 | 50 | / |
| Cañeles | 77 | 3 | / |
| Sañales | 77 | 1 | / |
| Cannals | 77 | 0 | / |
| Canalles | 71 | 61 | / |
| Chanales | 71 | 39 | / |
| Canalese | 71 | 12 | / |
| Cannales | 71 | 12 | / |
| Caniales | 71 | 7 | / |
| Canaless | 71 | 2 | / |
| Canñeles | 71 | 1 | / |
| Cañialez | 71 | 1 | / |
| Caneales | 71 | 1 | / |
| Canailes | 71 | 1 | / |
| Channals | 71 | 0 | / |
| Canalsová | 67 | 3 | / |
| Conals | 67 | 1 | / |
| Canioales | 67 | 1 | / |
| Canalsova | 67 | 1 | / |
| Kanals | 67 | 1 | / |
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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 Cañals
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