Cañanga Surname

1,441,361st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 149 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Philippines

Cañanga Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cañanga Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Philippines1481:684,04270,291
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403

The alternate forms: Cananga (2,853) & Canañga (9) are calculated separately.

Cañanga Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cañanga Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Cañanga is carried by more people in The Philippines than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant: Cananga or Canañga. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Cañanga? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,441,361st most widespread surname on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 48,909,704 people. This surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 100 percent of Cañanga reside; 99 percent reside in Southeast Asia and 99 percent reside in Fil-Southeast Asia.

This surname is most frequent in The Philippines, where it is carried by 148 people, or 1 in 684,042. In The Philippines Cañanga is mostly concentrated in: Western Visayas, where 70 percent reside, Calabarzon, where 9 percent reside and National Capital Region, where 7 percent reside. Besides The Philippines this last name is found in one country. It is also found in Qatar, where 1 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
  • 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 Cañanga
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