Chấn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 震
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Chấn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 88th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 36K
- GYGuyana1 in 1.4K
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)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
76,664 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chan in US United States, VN Vietnam.
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)Sino-Vietnamese reading of 震
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chấn 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 76,664 | 1 in 4.3K | 81K | Chan | 87 |
| VN Vietnam | #88 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Chan | 110 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,348 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 686 | 1 in 73K | 686 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 541 | 1 in 1.4K | 541 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 530 | 1 in 10K | 530 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 429 | 1 in 13K | 429 | — | 1 |
76,664 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the vn-kaggle-given register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chen Zhenb. 170CNnot in their usual nameChinese She Han state official (died 235)
- Wang Zhenb. 1867CNnot in their usual nameQing Dynasty painter (1867-1938)
- Lei Chenb. 1897TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese activist
- Wang Zhenb. 1908CNnot in their usual nameChinese military officer and politician (1908-1993)
- Zhang Zhenb. 1914CNnot in their usual nameformer Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China (1914-2015)
- Chiang Chenb. 1923CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong businessman (1923–2022)
- Ni Zhenb. 1938CNnot in their usual nameChinese screenwriter and professor (1938-2022)
- Chang Chenb. 1976TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
- Xu Zhenb. 1977CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (born 1977)
- Guan Zhenb. 1985CNnot in their usual namefootballer, goalkeeper
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chấn mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 震 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Chấn a male or female name?
- Chấn is a male 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 Chấn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Chấn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chan.
- Where is Chấn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chấn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chấn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 76,664 people named Chấn in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chấn compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chấn is the 88th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chấn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%E1%BA%A5nThe 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, “Chấn” — the 88th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.