Cánovas Surname
Approximately 361 people bear this surname
Cánovas Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 297 | 1:157,414 | 11,482 |
| Argentina | 15 | 1:2,849,561 | 122,961 |
| Mexico | 9 | 1:13,791,801 | 45,470 |
| Peru | 7 | 1:4,540,589 | 34,489 |
| Chile | 5 | 1:3,523,295 | 39,650 |
| Uruguay | 4 | 1:857,940 | 31,713 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Cuba | 3 | 1:3,840,905 | 13,116 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
The alternate forms: Canovas (18,736), Cànovas (7) & Cañovas (15) are calculated separately.
Cánovas Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cánovas Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Cánovas occurs most in Spain. It may also occur as a variant: Canovas, Cànovas or Cañovas. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Cánovas? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 783,439th most widely held family name worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 20,187,108 people. The last name is mostly found in Europe, where 86 percent of Cánovas live; 83 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 82 percent live in Iberian Europe.
The last name is most widely held in Spain, where it is borne by 297 people, or 1 in 157,414. In Spain it is primarily concentrated in: Murcia, where 38 percent are found, Catalonia, where 28 percent are found and Madrid, where 17 percent are found. Besides Spain Cánovas exists in 21 countries. It also occurs in Argentina, where 4 percent are found and Mexico, where 2 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canovas | 95 | 18,736 | / |
| Cànovas | 95 | 7 | / |
| Cañovas | 90 | 15 | / |
| Conovas | 86 | 6 | / |
| Cánavas | 86 | 1 | / |
| Chanovas | 80 | 10 | / |
| Casnovas | 80 | 3 | / |
| Cannovas | 80 | 2 | / |
| Canobas | 71 | 782 | / |
| Canavas | 71 | 52 | / |
| Canovaz | 71 | 38 | / |
| Kanovas | 71 | 5 | / |
| Konovas | 71 | 3 | / |
| Canovasová | 71 | 1 | / |
| Canovos | 71 | 1 | / |
| Chanavas | 67 | 57 | / |
| Chanobas | 67 | 5 | / |
| Kainovas | 67 | 3 | / |
| Canavase | 67 | 3 | / |
| Konovats | 67 | 1 | / |
| Conoways | 67 | 0 | / |
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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
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- 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 Cánovas
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