Chằn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a kind of monster in Vietnamese folklore, arguably a yaksa, a tiger monster or a snake monster
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/căn˧˨/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chằn is a surname 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)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
76,664 people, 2010
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)
a kind of monster in Vietnamese folklore, arguably a yaksa, a tiger monster or a snake monster
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chằn 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; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chằn mean, and where does it come from?
- a kind of monster in Vietnamese folklore, arguably a yaksa, a tiger monster or a snake monster Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chằn?
- A machine transcription gives /căn˧˨/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Chằn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Chằn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chan.
- Where is Chằn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chằn 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 Chằn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 76,664 people named Chằn in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chằn compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chằn is the 88th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chằn?
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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%B1nThe 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, “Chằn” — the 88th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.