Cañada
loc · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cañada is a name, most frequently recorded in Canada. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: glen, gully, ravine.
- PYParaguay1 in 168◐
- CACanada1 in 761
- ESSpain1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈218 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 266 ●
- 1 in 2.3M ◐
across 2 countries
recorded for this name
90K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Canada in CA Canada, US United States, PE Peru and 22 more and Kanade in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
glen, gully, ravine
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | 289,404 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Canada | 60 |
| PY Paraguay | 103,264 | 27 rec. | — | — | Cañada | 3 |
| ES Spain | 14,493 | 4.2K rec. | — | 4.5K | Cañada | 80 |
| PE Peru | 11,703 | 41 rec. | — | — | Canada | 2 |
| MX Mexico | 4,948 | 925 rec. | — | 32 | Canada | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | 632 | 3K rec. | — | — | Canada | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 574 | 2.6K rec. | — | 404 | Canada | 27 |
| FR France | 277 | 964 rec. | — | 27 | Canada | 97 |
| AU Australia | 231 | 750 rec. | — | — | Canada | 22 |
| CO Colombia | 165 | 222 rec. | — | — | Canada | 10 |
| US United States | 147 | 61K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 9.8K | Canada | 266 |
| IT Italy | 104 | 587 rec. | — | — | Canada | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish117K57%
- English6231%
- Arabic411%
- Romanian321%
- Italian281%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 117,159 | 57% |
| English | 623 | 1% |
| Arabic | 41 | 1% |
| Romanian | 32 | 1% |
| Italian | 28 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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●
- 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●
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 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 404 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 32 | #3,378 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 14 | #4,520 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 4 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2006 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2003 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2002 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1911 | 1 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cañada?
- We estimate roughly 218 people bear Cañada (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cañada have the most bearers?
- Cañada is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled canada.
- What does the name Cañada mean?
- Recorded meaning: glen, gully, ravine
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C3%B1adaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 2026-09-12.