Kanaet families are Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area. According to some sources they are from Zaluzani near Banja Luka (Bosnia). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sinj area and in Sinj.
Prevalence
About 150 people with faimily name Kanaet live in Croatia today, in 50 households. There were 60 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are only located in in 8 Croatian cities and 5 other places, mostly in Potravlje in Sinj area (40), Sinj (35), Split (25), Zagreb (25), and in Brnaze (<10).
Outside Croatia
Family name Kanaet is present in three countries on two continents. The family name "Kanaet " is used by few people in Russian Federation and few people in the United States.
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 2007 in source Encyclopaedia of Croatian Surnames.