Cañás Surname
Approximately 19 people bear this surname
Cañás Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 9 | 1:5,194,671 | 82,436 |
| Argentina | 7 | 1:6,106,202 | 178,634 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Cañas (61,906), Canás (2), Canas (9,531), Cańas (1) & Canaş (65) are calculated separately.
Cañás Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cañás Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cañás is borne by more people in Spain than any other country/territory. It may be found as a variant: Cañas, Canás, Canas, Cańas or Canaş. Click here for further potential spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cañás? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 4,532,898th most commonly used family name throughout the world, borne by around 1 in 383,555,048 people. Cañás is primarily found in Europe, where 58 percent of Cañás live; 47 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 47 percent live in Iberian Europe.
It is most numerous in Spain, where it is held by 9 people, or 1 in 5,194,671. In Spain Cañás is mostly concentrated in: Galicia, where 89 percent live and Madrid, where 11 percent live. Beside Spain Cañás is found in 4 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 37 percent live and England, where 5 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 Cañás
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