Cañada
loc · Latin script
Meaning: glen, gully, ravine
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cañada is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 34K
- CACanada≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
9,819 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Canada in CA Canada, US United States, Kanada in ID Indonesia and Kanade in SG Singapore.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
glen, gully, ravine
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cañada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,819 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Canada | 296 |
| ES Spain | 4,452 | 1 in 11K | 4.5K | Cañada | 87 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Kanada | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Cañada | 41 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Cañada | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Canada | 75 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Kanade | 9 |
9,819 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cañada is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Synonym of ravine: a gully, a narrow (often small) canyon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pilar Cañadab. 1929ESSpanish presenter (1929–2023)
- Alberto Cañada Justeb. 1931ESNavarrese engineer, historian of the Banu Qasi dynasty in the 9th-10th century Kingdom of Pamplona
- Silverio Cañada Acebalb. 1932ESSpanish editor
- Pedro Cañadab. 1936ESSpanish politician
- Nati Cañadab. 1942ESSpanish painter
- Mabel Cañada Zorrillab. 1952ESSpanish antimilitarist and pacifist
- Daniel Granada Cañadab. 1971ESSpanischer Priester und Theologe (1971-)
- David Cañadab. 1975ESSpanish road bicycle racer (1975-2016)
- Cristian Cañadab. 1991EScyclist
- Pedro Pitarch CañadaESSpanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.5K | #1,181 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.5K | #1,181 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cañada mean, and where does it come from?
- glen, gully, ravine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cañada have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Cañada, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canada.
- Where is Cañada most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cañada is densest in Spain — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cañada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,819 people named Cañada in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cañada?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1adaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cañada”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.