Khản
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khản is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Via late Middle English can, chan from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), and Mongolian хаан (xaan).
- GYGuyana1 in 104(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 780
- INIndia1 in 893
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #223 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104 (inferred from the name graph)
1,485,348 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Khan in IN India, US United States, NO Norway.
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)- Old Frenchchan(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinchanis(measured from records)
- Turkic*qan(measured from records)
- Middle Mongolᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨqaɣan(measured from records)
Via late Middle English can, chan from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), and Mongolian хаан (xaan). * Sense 1 (ruler in the Middle Ages) after Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongol ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan).
Cited for this meaning 7
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Khản is found
(measured from records)Khản 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.
1,485,348 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Li Kanb. 1407not in their usual namepolitician
- Yu Kannot in their usual namepolitician
- Zhong Kannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 330617
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Khản mean, and where does it come from?
- Via late Middle English can, chan from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), and Mongolian хаан (xaan). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Khản a male or female name?
- Khản 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Khản?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Khản, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khan. After it come United States, Guyana, Norway and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Khản most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khản is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 104 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Khản?
- In India, the national register counted 1,485,348 people named Khản, about 1 in 893 residents.
- How common is Khản compared with other names?
- In India, Khản is the 38th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kh%E1%BA%A3nThe 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, “Khản” — the 38th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.