Çapan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Ceket. 2. Engelli, tehlikeli
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃapan̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Çapan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 4.6K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Capan in US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Ceket. 2. Engelli, tehlikeli. 3. Düğün yemeği yapan aşçı. 4. Alkış, el çırpma.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Çapan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Çapan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tatar, a sort of cloak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cevat Çapanb. 1933TRTurkish poet and writer (born 1933)
- Mehmet Çapanb. 1945TRTurkish musician (born 1945)
- Gürbüz Çapanb. 1955TRTurkish physician and statesperson (born 1955)
- Sevtap Çapanb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- Bahtiyar Eraslan ÇapanTRTurkish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Çapan?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃapan̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Çapan mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Ceket. 2. Engelli, tehlikeli.
- In which country does Çapan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Çapan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çapan.
- Where is Çapan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çapan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.6 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Çapan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 926 people named Çapan in 2021, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7apanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çapan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.