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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish and Portuguese: nickname for an old man or someone with prematurely white hair, from cano ‘white or gray haired’, ‘old’, ‘worthy’ (Latin canus).
  2. Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name from a place in Spain called Caño or Cano in Portugal, both named with a derivative of Latin canna ‘reed’.

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