Canan Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 1
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 1
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Canan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Canan family

Profession Census Frequency
Private Means 2
Collery Repear 1
Tailor 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Canan

Name Census Frequency
Mary Canan 17
John Canan 15
William Canan 11
Ann Canan 10
Thomas Canan 10
Catherine Canan 7
Margaret Canan 6
Michael Canan 6
Alice Canan 5
Elizabeth Canan 5
Ellen Canan 5
James Canan 5
Bridget Canan 4
George Canan 4
Patrick Canan 4
Hannah Canan 3
Peter Canan 3
Alfred Canan 2
Annie Canan 2
Daniel Canan 2
Edward Canan 2
Eliza Canan 2
Jane Canan 2
Maria Canan 2
Robert Canan 2

Canan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cann 80% 24,121
2 Conn 60% 2,826
3 Cannan 83% 2,275
4 Canon 80% 1,817
5 Cunn 60% 544
6 Conen 60% 431
7 Coonan 67% 427
8 Canan 100% 166
9 Conan 80% 162
10 Cunan 80% 138
11 Kaanan 67% 114

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The surname Canan is the 8th most popular variant of Cann.

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