Caniço: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Caniço? Think of it as Canedo with a different pen. Its meaning, shared with Canedo, is “Reed bed”.

• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Records show Caniço as one of the forms Canedo took over time.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Caniço, so the heraldry linked to Canedo is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Caniço report, with a museum-style coat of arms.