Čanadi families are Croats and they are mostly from Prelog area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Prelog area.
Prevalence
About 120 people with faimily name Čanadi live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 30 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 17 other places, mostly in Zagreb (20), Mursko Sredisce (20), Cakovec (15), and in Palinovec (15) and Donji Pustakovec (<10) in Prelog area.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.