Chanson
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: or fond of singing at his work, from OF chanson song (LL cantio, gen. cantionis singing, song, a deriv. of cantare to sing, replacing class. L cantus; cf. Cant). 2
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɑ̃sɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chanson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- THThailand≈1 in 7.1Kas จันทร์ศรี(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K
- BEBelgium1 in 326K
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 Chanson 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 named จันทร์ศรี, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
24 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled จันทร์ศรี in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia, Chansorn in CH Switzerland and Chansiri in US United States.
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)
or fond of singing at his work, from OF chanson song (LL cantio, gen. cantionis singing, song, a deriv. of cantare to sing, replacing class. L cantus; cf. Cant). 2. occupational name for a cup-bearer, from an aphetic form of OF echanson, a word of Gmc origin (see Schenke). Dims, (of 2); Pol.: Czapnik. Czech: Capek. Habitation names (from 2): Pol.: Czaplihski, Czapiicki.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chanson is read(measured from records)
Chanson is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French74%
or fond of singing at his work, from OF chanson song (LL cantio, gen. cantionis singing, song, a deriv. of cantare to sing, replacing class. L cantus; cf. Cant). 2. occupational name for a cup-bearer, from an aphetic form of OF echanson, a word of Gmc origin (see Schenke). Dims, (of 2); Pol.: Czapnik. Czech: Capek. Habitation names (from 2): Pol.: Czaplihski, Czapiicki.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
song
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
Any song with French words, but more specifically a classic, lyric-driven French song.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chanson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #15 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | #88,921 | จันทร์ศรี | 94 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | จันทร์ศรี | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 294 | 1 in 29K | 294 | Chansorn | 2 |
| US United States | — | 108 | 1 in 3.1M | 200 | Chansiri | 45 |
| BE Belgium | — | 36 | 1 in 326K | 36 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 5as Chansri | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | 2 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Chanson is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, chanson (polyphonic form of secular vocal music from the 15. and 16. centuries)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, chanson (French, lyric-driven song)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, chanson (traditional French song)
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)
- Antoine Chansonb. 1838FRFrench politician
- Paul Chansonb. 1890FRFrench Catholic industrialist and author on conjugal sexuality (active 1940s–1950s)
- Hubert Chansonb. 1961FRAustralian engineering academic
- Julie Chansonb. 1990BEBelgian MP for Ecolo
- Samuel Tin-Hung ChansonUSPh.D. University of California, Berkeley 1975
- Marc ChansonNLresearcher
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 294 | #4,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 98 | #156,269 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 36 | #32,670 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Chanson mean, and where does it come from?
- or fond of singing at his work, from OF chanson song (LL cantio, gen. cantionis singing, song, a deriv. of cantare to sing, replacing class. L cantus; cf. Cant). 2. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Chanson?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɑ̃sɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Chanson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named จันทร์ศรี in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chanson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chanson is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chanson?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 294 people named Chanson in 2024, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Chanson compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Chanson is the 15th most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chansonThe 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, “Chanson” — the 15th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.