Canns 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 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 7
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 3
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

Wales

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

Canns Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Canns family

Profession Census Frequency
Musician 2
Menle Of Stock Exchange 1
Labourer 1
Painter 1
Police Constable 1
Private 1
Nurse Child 1
Domestic Servant 1
Tailor 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Canns

Name Census Frequency
William Canns 18
John Canns 15
Mary Canns 15
Elizabeth Canns 12
James Canns 8
George Canns 5
Henry Canns 5
Robert Canns 5
Edward Canns 4
Hannah Canns 4
Jane Canns 4
Thomas Canns 4
Ann Canns 3
Catherine Canns 3
Emma Canns 3
Ernest Canns 3
Frederick Canns 3
Joseph Canns 3
Louisa Canns 3
Martha Canns 3
Sarah Canns 3
Patrick Canns 2
Rachael Canns 2
Sebastian Canns 2
Stephen Canns 2

Canns Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cannous 71% 231
2 Canns 100% 182

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The surname Canns is the 2nd most popular variant of Cannous.

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