Canuto

Boys' name

Possibly knot, through Knútr

Canuto has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Canuto, 1951

1 in 526,000

Canuto over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Canuto: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly knot, through Knútr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Canuto means

Canuto belongs to the name family reached through Canuto → Knútr. Its meaning is “knot”.

Origin, language, and formation

Canuto is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Canuto comes through Anglo-Norman *Canut and Old Norse Knútr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Canute and Knútr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Canuto is pronounced /kaˈnu.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 boys were recorded with the name Canuto between 1914 and 1951. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1932; its best national rank was #2,485 in 1932.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Canuto?

Canuto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1951, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1951: 1 in 526,000; 7 of 3,682,692 births
Among boys only: 1 in 269,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1951: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 364,665 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Canuto sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1951 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 364,665 children born in 1951 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Canuto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Canutos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Canuto was born before 1927 — so the typical Canuto is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 7; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Canuto rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1932 (10)
Years since peak: 93; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,485; 1932

Spellings of Canuto

Canuto is not the most common spelling — Santo is, with 78.7% against Canuto's 1.7%.

Santo78.7%4,876
Cato10.9%675
Canton8.7%538
Canuto1.7%108

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Canuto is used

Across 1910–2025, Canuto was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 698,077 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Canuto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Canuto by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,485; 1932
Peak year: 1932; 10 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1951
All-time count: 108
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Canuto

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Canuto

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Louella Billy Donald Ardith Roma Marvel Bobby Shirlee

For a brother

Delano Talmadge Gaylord Franklyn Boyce Dudley Arlen Delmar

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