Canestro

surname · Latin script

Meaning: do lat. canistrum; recorda fabricante e mercador de cestos

Canestro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 443K
  • ARArgentina1 in 555K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

730 people

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cañestro in ES Spain, VE Venezuela.

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)

recorded in Portuguese

do lat. canistrum; recorda fabricante e mercador de cestos

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Canestro 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.

Where Canestro is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain7301 in 69K730Cañestro46
IT Italy≈140 est.≈1 in 443KlistedCanestro5
US United States≈110 est.≈1 in 3MlistedCanestro16
AR Argentina821 in 555K82Canestro26
FR France≈63 est.≈1 in 1.1M9——
VE Venezuela≈10 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Cañestro4

730 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Canestro is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Cañestro

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Cañestro

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Cañestro, Cànèstrò

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cañestro

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cañestro

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Canestro 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 Italian, basket (normal, and in basketball)

    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)

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 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Canestro
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—82—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19919—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19513—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18911—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931——
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921——

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Canestro mean?
Recorded meaning: do lat. canistrum; recorda fabricante e mercador de cestos
What are other forms of the name Canestro?
In the etymology graph, Canister is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Canestro have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 730 people named Canestro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cañestro.
Where is Canestro most common?
Canestro is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Canestro?
In Spain, the national register counted 730 people named Canestro, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.

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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, “Canestro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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