Given name & surname · also Italian
Canuto
Canuto is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Canuto comes from Italian, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Canuto developed from Knútr.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Canuto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 108
- 108 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1932
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1951. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1932. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 261 as a first name in 2020; 578 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Canuto’s family of names
In Italian usage, Canuto developed from the Old Norse form Knútr. In Portuguese usage, Canuto has a conventional equivalent in the English form Canute.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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