Caplan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kæplən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caplan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin .
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 488as Kaplan(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11Kas Kaplan
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15Kas Kaplan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Caplan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 488 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Kaplan, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est., as Kaplan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaplan in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus, IQ Iraq.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caplan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #38 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 488 | — | Kaplan | 120 |
| US United States | — | 29,582as Kaplan | 1 in 11K | 30K | Caplan | 342 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Caplan | 41 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Kaplan | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Caplan | 150 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Caplan | 38 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,328as Kaplan | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #148 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kaplan | 14 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Caplan 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 Romanian, a turban made from a tiger pelt worn by Ottoman soldiers
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)
- Theresa Caplanb. 1913USAmerican psychologist (1913–2010)
- Twink Caplanb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Paula Caplanb. 1947USAmerican psychologist (1947-2021)
- Arthur Caplanb. 1950USAmerican bioethicist
- Michael Caplanb. 1953GBEnglish solicitor
- Dave Caplanb. 1959USAmerican writer and producer (born 1959)
- Jil Caplanb. 1965FRFrench pop singer
- Bryan Caplanb. 1971USAmerican economist and author (b. 1971)
- Seth Caplanb. 1977USAmerican film producer
- Lizzy Caplanb. 1982USAmerican actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,458 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Caplan mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. see Chaplin . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Caplan?
- A machine transcription gives /kæplən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Caplan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 thousand people named Kaplan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Caplan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,582 people named Kaplan in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Caplan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Caplan is the 38th most common surname of 619,652 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/caplanThe 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, “Caplan” — the 38th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.