Canú
surname · Latin script
Canú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sardinian canu (“hoary-haired”), from Latin canus.
- BEBelgium1 in 97K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 118K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 150Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
153 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Canu in AR Argentina, GT Guatemala, US United States and 1 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)- Sardiniancanu“hoary-haired”(measured from records)
- Latincanus(measured from records)
From Sardinian canu (“hoary-haired”), from Latin canus.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Canú 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 | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 243 | Canu | 41 |
| BE Belgium | 121 | 1 in 97K | 121 | Canu | 6 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Canu | 13 |
| AR Argentina | 93 | 1 in 489K | 93 | Canu | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | 71 | 1 in 118K | 71 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
153 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Canú 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 Irish, canoe
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Canú mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sardinian canu (“hoary-haired”), from Latin canus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Canú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 153 people named Canú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled canu.
- Where is Canú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Canú is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Canú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 153 people named Canú in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Canú?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/can%C3%BAThe 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, “Canú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.