Chavan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Chavan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 1,748 people, counted by Instate. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
- NONorway1 in 68K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 138K
- SESweden1 in 204K
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 Chavan 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
1,748 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chavan is found
(measured from records)Chavan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #566 | 1,748 | 1 in 759K | 1.7K | Chavan | 233 |
| US United States | — | 599as Chavana | 1 in 555K | 1.2K | Chavan | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Chavan | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | Chavan | 55 |
| FR France | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 591K | 25 | Chavan | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61 | 1 in 138K | 61 | Chavan | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Chavan | 16 |
1,748 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Chavan 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.
In English, A surname from Marathi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-poi, barn owl
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)- Prithviraj Chavanb. 1946INpolitician
- Ashok Chavanb. 1958INIndian politician
- Vandana Chavanb. 1961INIndian politician
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chavan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Marathi चव्हाण (cavhāṇ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chavan?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Chavan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavan. After it come United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chavan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chavan is densest in Norway — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chavan?
- In India, the national register counted 1,748 people named Chavan, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
- How common is Chavan compared with other names?
- In India, Chavan is the 566th most common surname of 1,492,515 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/chavanThe 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, “Chavan” — ranked 3487th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.