Mechan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of mechar (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INEC, 2023
/metʃan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mechan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 154K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 520K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mechan
- Spanish:/metʃan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of mechar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mechan is found
(measured from records)Mechan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 389K | — | Mechan | 4 |
| US United States | 116 | 1 in 2.9M | 144 | Mechan | 26 |
| PE Peru | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 518K | — | Mechan | 42 |
| AR Argentina | 39 | 1 in 1.2M | 39 | Mechan | 15 |
| ES Spain | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | Mechan | 18 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 702K | 1 | Mechan | 5 |
| CL Chile | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 882K | — | Mechan | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 22 | 1 in 154K | 22 | Mechan | 3 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Mechan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Moses; from Sefrou
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Chinese, mechanics (as a subject)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mechan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of mechar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mechan?
- In Spanish /metʃan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mechan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 178 people named Mechan in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mechan. After it come United States, Peru, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mechan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mechan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mechan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 116 people named Mechan in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mechan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mechanThe 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, “Mechan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.