Changchien
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Mandarin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Changchien is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Taiwan than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 5.9Mfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Taiwan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)A surname from Mandarin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Changchien is found
(measured from records)Changchien 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TW Taiwan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Changchien | 19 |
| US United States | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | listed | Changchien | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.4M | — | Changchien | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Changchien | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | — | Changchien | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shou-Jen Chang ChienTWnot in their usual namePh.D. Chung Yuan Christian University 2012
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Changchien mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Mandarin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Changchien?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Changchien in Taiwan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled changchien. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Changchien?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,400 people in Taiwan have Changchien as their first surname, about 1 in 17 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/changchienThe 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, “Changchien”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.