Chaván
surname · Latin script
Chaván is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
- NONorway1 in 68K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 138K
- SESweden1 in 204K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chaván itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,748 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chavan in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chaván 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #566 | 1,748 | 1 in 759K | 1.7K | Chavan | 233 |
| US United States | — | 599as Chavana | 1 in 555K | 1.2K | Chavan | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Chavan | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | Chavan | 55 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 591K | 25 | Chavan | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61 | 1 in 138K | 61 | Chavan | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Chavan | 16 |
1,748 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chaván mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Chaván have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Chaván, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavan.
- Where is Chaván most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chaván is densest in Norway — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chaván?
- In India, the national register counted 1,748 people named Chaván, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
- How common is Chaván compared with other names?
- In India, Chaván is the 566th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chav%C3%A1nThe 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, “Chaván” — the 566th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.