Given name & surname

Canari

Canari is a surname from Greek. It is used in Romanian.

Original GreekΚανάρης

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Canari comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Greek Κανάρης.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Canari through the years

Babies since 1880
8
0 boys · 8 girls
Most popular year
2024
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02462025Highest share 20240.0
Canari in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2024–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Canari’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Canari as a surname was borrowed from the Greek form Κανάρης.

Walk Canari’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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If you love Canari, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Xylia

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30RareRising fast

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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