Cann Name Origin and Family Crest

People named Cann carry an English surname with a long history. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Cann (deep valley), in Dorset”. Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from. The name also appears as Can.

The 2010 US Census counted 3,890 people named Cann, ranking it number 8,479 among American surnames. French birth records list 931 children named Cann between 1891 and 2000. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Canny, Coan and Cano.

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Cann family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. For the full story, order the Cann surname pack.