Marchán

surname · Latin script

Marchán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: marcher, fouler, pédaler.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 152K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 22K
  • ESSpain1 in 31K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,184 people, 2010

Sources
200 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marchan in US United States, ES Spain, SB Solomon Islands.

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)

marcher, fouler, pédaler

Sources 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marchán 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 Marchán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,1841 in 152K2.2KMarchan200
ES Spain—1,6091 in 31K1.6KMarchan38
AR Argentina—1,1811 in 39K1.2K—1
BR Brazil—5721 in 370K572——
UY Uruguay—1571 in 22K157——
SB Solomon Islands#541———Marchan1

2,184 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Marchán is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese

    Also written Marchan, M̶a̶r̶c̶h̶a̶n̶

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Marchan

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Marchan

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, India, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Marchan

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Марчан, Marchan, Marchàn

9 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Simón Marchán Fiz, b. 1941Alberto Marchán, b. 1947Javier Marchán, b. 1967Daniel Arismendi, b. 1982Mónica Puig, b. 1993Rubén Marchán, b. 1994Jhon Marchán, b. 1998Daniela Hernán Marchán, b. 2008

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Marchán mean, and where does it come from?
marcher, fouler, pédaler Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Marchán have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Marchán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marchan.
Where is Marchán most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marchán is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Marchán?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,184 people named Marchán in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
How common is Marchán compared with other names?
In Solomon Islands, Marchán is the 541st most common surname of 6,287 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, “Marchán” — the 541st most common surname in Solomon Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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