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The Cane surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,605 people carried this name — #11,988 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 113,600 people counted. That is down 11% from 2,943 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 1,084 people named Cane live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 478
Santa Fe 137
City of Buenos Aires 132
Córdoba 123
Entre Ríos 90
Mendoza 35
La Pampa 29
Salta 21

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 249 people named Cane.

71 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 32 départements, most often Alpes-Maritimes.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 71
Alpes-Maritimes 45
Bouches-du-Rhône 23
Paris 21
Seine-Saint-Denis 17
Var 10
Moselle 8
Corsica 6
Gers 5

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

27 people named Cane live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 18
Geneva 5
Ticino 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In print

Cane in American newspapers,
1881–1908.

Newspaper page from Daily Globe carrying the name Cane
Daily Globe 1881-01-22
Newspaper page from Passaic City Record carrying the name Cane
Passaic City Record 1895-01-19
Newspaper page from The Jeffersonian carrying the name Cane
The Jeffersonian 1908-02-20

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,590,424 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Cane,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Facino Cane
    Facino Cane 1360–1412 · condottiero
  • Beatrice Cane
    Beatrice Cane 1372–1418 · aristocrat
  • Andrew Cane d. 1656 · actor
  • Annabella Bayley d. 1783
  • Hugh Cane d. 1783
  • Annabelle Cane d. 1827

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Cane.

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