Caen

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Caen (a city and commune, the prefecture of the department of Calvados, France)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Caen is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia
  • PTPortugal
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Caen (a city and commune, the prefecture of the department of Calvados, France)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Caen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—46Caen1
BR Brazil——Caen8
BO Bolivia——Caen1
PT Portugal——Caen1
MX Mexico——Caen6
BE Belgium—128——

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caen is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name103 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, German, English

    Also written Can, Ca'N, Cañ, C'An, Çan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Caën

  • Thai given name92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia

    Also written ก้อง, กอง, กวาง, กลอง, กว้าง

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Çaen

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Caen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Caerdydd [Cardiff]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, Wales

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of caer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, covering, coat, layer

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Julien Caen, b. 1887Herb Caen, b. 1916Jacques Caen, b. 1927Marion Créhange, b. 1937Michel Caen, b. 1942Olivier Lyon-Caen, b. 1947Gino Caen, b. 1965Nicolas Lyon-Caen, b. 1978

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 6 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Caen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008128#12,675
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195172—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194153—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193135—

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 Caen mean, and where does it come from?
Caen (a city and commune, the prefecture of the department of Calvados, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Caen have the most bearers?
Caen is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled caen.

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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, “Caen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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