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The CAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 734 30120 0 3
United States (1880 census) 149 23792 0 3
Change since 1880 +585 -6328 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 59 22204 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 175 12931 0.001 5
New Jersey 66 13354 0.001 8
New York 61 26847 0.000 3
Florida 51 27665 0.000 3
Texas 46 25746 0.000 2
Top States for CAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 66 13354 0.001 8
Louisiana 34 11368 0.001 8
New Hampshire 7 17251 0.001 6
Oregon 19 19188 0.001 6
South Carolina 21 12880 0.001 5

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAN by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of CAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 261 35.56
White (Hispanic) 242 32.97
Asian/Pacific 166 22.62
Mixed Race 34 4.63
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAN.

Similar names to CAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAN

The following words are slight variants of CAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.