Cặn

given name · Latin script

Meaning: dregs, lees, sediment

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cặn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 138K
  • SESweden1 in 14K

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.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,800 people, est.

Record sources
105 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Can in VN Vietnam, 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)

dregs, lees, sediment

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cặn 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 Cặn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#196≈7,800 est.≈1 in 13KlistedCan105
US United States—2,4081 in 138K1.8KCan74
SE Sweden—7481 in 14K748—1
PL Poland—2401 in 160K234——
DK Denmark—1601 in 37K187——
FI Finland—1341 in 42K291—1
AL Albania—531 in 58K53——

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)

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

  • a separate given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, China, India

    Also written Can, Çan, Cạn, Cañ, Cần

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Cặn 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 tyz, to squeeze; to press (with one's hands)

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cặn 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 Cặn mean, and where does it come from?
dregs, lees, sediment Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Cặn a male or female name?
Cặn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Cặn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Cặn in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled can.
How common is the name Cặn?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,408 people named Cặn in 2020, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
How common is Cặn compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Cặn is the 196th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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, “Cặn” — the 196th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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