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The CANNAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 752 29570 0 3
United States (1880 census) 519 9362 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +233 -20208 +N/A -7
Other Countries
Australia 222 6856 0.001 14
United Kingdom 247 14459 0.001 5
Top States for CANNAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 158 11250 0.001 8
California 94 22752 0.000 3
Texas 65 20311 0.000 3
New Jersey 60 15322 0.001 7
Florida 55 26708 0.000 3
Top States for CANNAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 30 5105 0.002 24
New York 158 11250 0.001 8
Montana 7 18277 0.001 8
New Jersey 60 15322 0.001 7
Vermont 4 15433 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of CANNAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CANNAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CANNAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CANNAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 700 93.09
White (Hispanic) 26 3.46
Mixed Race 14 1.86
Black/African American 6 0.8
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of CANNAN in historical publications

CANON. CANNAN. See Cannon.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CANNAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANNAN.

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 CANNAN

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