Çaplan

surname · Latin script

Çaplan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin .

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 62K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 83K
  • ARArgentina1 in 330K

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.

United States (measured from records)

4,011 people, 2010

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Caplan in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin .

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çaplan 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.

Where Çaplan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,0111 in 83K4KCaplan35
AR Argentina1381 in 330K138——
UY Uruguay551 in 62K55——
BR Brazil521 in 4.1M52——
TR Türkiye≈25 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Çaplan6
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

4,011 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çaplan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Turkish, English, Chinese

    Also written Kaplan, Caplan, K'Aplan, แคปแลน, แคปแปลน

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çaplan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çaplan mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Çaplan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Çaplan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caplan.
Where is Çaplan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çaplan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 62 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Çaplan?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,011 people named Çaplan in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.

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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, “Çaplan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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