Kanás Surname
Approximately 127 people bear this surname
Kanás Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 122 | 1:43,741 | 8,259 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
The alternate forms: Kanas (1,877), Kanáš (1), Kanaş (294), Kanaś (64), Kanaš (26) & Kañas (17) are calculated separately.
Kanás Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanás Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Kanás occurs most in Slovakia. It may occur in the variant forms: Kanas, Kanáš, Kanaş, Kanaś, Kanaš or Kañas. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanás? popularity and diffusion
The surname Kanás is the 1,596,935th most frequently occurring surname in the world It is held by around 1 in 57,382,251 people. The last name Kanás occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Kanás reside; 99 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 99 percent reside in West Slavic Europe.
The surname is most frequent in Slovakia, where it is held by 122 people, or 1 in 43,741. In Slovakia Kanás is most numerous in: Nitra Region, where 98 percent live, Bratislava Region, where 2 percent live and Prešov Region, where 1 percent live. Barring Slovakia Kanás occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Czechia, where 3 percent live and Germany, where 1 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 Kanás
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