Chapoñan

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries

Chapoñan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.

  • PEPeru≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 121K
  • ARArgentina1 in 263K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,000 people, est.

Record sources
40 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Peru, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Chapoñan is found

(measured from records)

Chapoñan 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 Chapoñan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#499≈8,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Chapoñan40
AR Argentina—1731 in 263K173Chapoñan12
ES Spain—951 in 526K95Chapoñan12
CL Chile—≈61 est.≈1 in 322K—Chapoñan15
BR Brazil—≈38 est.≈1 in 5.6M—Chapoñan8
UY Uruguay—281 in 121K28Chapoñan5

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Chapoñan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Chaponan, Chapoñán

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Chaponan, Chapoňan

  • Macedonian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Chaponan, Chapoñán

  • Hebrew surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Chaponan

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Chapoñan?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Chapoñan in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chapoñan. After it come Argentina, Spain, Chile and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Chapoñan?
In Argentina, the national register counted 173 people named Chapoñan, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
How common is Chapoñan compared with other names?
In Peru, Chapoñan is the 499th most common surname of 173,371 surnames 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, “Chapoñan” — the 499th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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