as a Last Name
- 1,966
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cane
Meaning & Origins
English: nickname for a tall thin man, from Middle English, Old French cane ‘cane’, ‘reed’ (Latin canna). It may also be a topographic name for someone who lived in a damp area overgrown with reeds, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered reeds, which were widely used in the Middle Ages as a floor covering, as roofing material, and for weaving small baskets.
| 13,305th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,966
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Cane per capita
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