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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Canada

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Cañada) : topographic name from cañada ‘glen’, ‘valley’.
  • Possibly also French, from a derivative of Old French chanée, a term denoting a type of elongated pitcher, from Latin canna ‘reed’.

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