Chacon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃakon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chacon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 119(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 434
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 718
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #962 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chacón in GT Guatemala.
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 nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin. The element chac- is used in other Sp. words descriptive of the noise of musical instruments or of con¬ vulsive laughter, as for example chacota and chacona. Cernohiavek see Chernyakov Chadash see Chodosh
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chacon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #74 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 434 | — | Chacon | 92 |
| CR Costa Rica | #30 | 43,021 | 1 in 119 | 43K | Chacon | 126 |
| US United States | — | 27,982 | 1 in 12K | 29K | Chacon | 384 |
| PE Peru | #203 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Chacon | 88 |
| CO Colombia | #231 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 24 | Chacon | 131 |
| GT Guatemala | #725 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 965 | — | Chacón | 66 |
| SV El Salvador | #122 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | — | Chacon | 46 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
- Augustine Chaconb. 1861MXoutlaw and folk hero of Arizona Territory
- Eddie Chaconb. 1963USAmerican musician
- Marcos Chaconb. 1967ESSpanish bodybuilder
- Raven Chaconb. 1977USNavajo composer and artist (born 1977)
- Salvador Chaconb. 1984MXMexican actor
- Leonardo Chaconb. 1984CRCosta Rican triathlete
- Coralie Chaconb. 1987FRformer artistic gymnast
- Sebastian Chaconb. 1993USactor
- Alexandre Chaconactor
- Marcela ChaconUSassistant professor of clinical family medicine
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 35 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 43K | #47 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 29K | #1,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 28K | #1,255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,559 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 24 | #92 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Chacon come from?
- a nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin. The element chac- is used in other Sp. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Chacon?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃakon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Chacon mean?
- Recorded meaning: a nickname for a noisy, jolly person, from a word of imi¬ tative origin.
- In which country does Chacon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Chacon in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chacon.
- Where is Chacon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chacon is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 119 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chacon?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 43,021 people named Chacon, about 1 in 119 residents.
- How common is Chacon compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Chacon is the 74th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaconThe 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, “Chacon” — the 74th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.