Makán
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Makán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Oran; Mekarn, Algeria.
- NONorway1 in 342K(measured from records)
- HUHungary≈1 in 435K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 342K (inferred from the name graph)
454 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Oran; Mekarn, Algeria
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Makán 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 | 454 | 1 in 2.9M | 454 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 126 | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Makán | 7 |
| ES Spain | 16 | 1 in 3.1M | 496 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 13 | 1 in 823K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | — |
454 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Makán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, masculine singular passive participle of makat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #70,399 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Makán mean, and where does it come from?
- Oran; Mekarn, Algeria Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,… and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Makán have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 454 people named Makán, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Makán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Makán is densest in Norway — about 1 in 342 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Makán?
- In India, the national register counted 454 people named Makán, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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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, “Makán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.