Caño
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tube or pipe
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈka.ɲo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Caño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 380(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 647
- PYParaguay≈1 in 660
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #729 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 381 (inferred from the name graph)
77,356 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cano in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 4 more.
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)tube or pipe
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Caño 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #46 | 77,356 | 1 in 647 | 77K | Cano | 221 |
| CO Colombia | #91 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 687 | 34 | Cano | 169 |
| US United States | — | 37,368 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Cano | 408 |
| AR Argentina | #213 | 30,683 | 1 in 1.5K | 31K | Cano | 118 |
| PH Philippines | #221 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Cano | 84 |
| NI Nicaragua | #51 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 381 | — | Cano | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | #130 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | — | Cano | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,709 | 1 in 913 | 3.7K | Caño | 43 |
77,356 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Caño 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 Galician, alternative form of coaño (“chaff”)
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)- José María López Cañob. 1939ESSpanish cyclist
- Carlos Alberto Contrerasb. 1973COnot in their usual nameColombian racing cyclist
- Mauricio Ardilab. 1979COnot in their usual nameroad bicycle racer
- Nicolás del Cañob. 1980ARArgentine politician
- David Caño i Cargolb. 1980ESSpanish poet and writer
- Alba Cañob. 2003ESSpanish association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.6K | #1,971 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.6K | #1,970 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 270 | — |
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 Caño mean, and where does it come from?
- tube or pipe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caño?
- In Spanish /ˈka.ɲo/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Caño have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Caño, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cano.
- How common is the name Caño?
- In Spain, the national register counted 77,356 people named Caño, about 1 in 647 residents.
- How common is Caño compared with other names?
- In Spain, Caño is the 46th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Caño?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1oThe 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, “Caño” — the 46th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.