Çavan
surname · Latin script
Çavan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 601 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Spanish caván, from Tagalog kaban as "Manila cavan", via Cebuano as the "provincial cavan".
- USUnited States1 in 553K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 590Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 553K (inferred from the name graph)
601 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cavan 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)- Spanishcaván(measured from records)
- Tagalogkaban(measured from records)
- Cebuanoas(measured from records)
From Spanish caván, from Tagalog kaban as "Manila cavan", via Cebuano as the "provincial cavan".
Cited for this meaning 2
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Çavan is found
(measured from records)Çavan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 601 | 1 in 553K | 1.4K | Cavan | 5 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Çavan | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
601 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)- Prithviraj Chavanb. 1946INnot in their usual namepolitician
- Ashok Chavanb. 1958INnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Vandana Chavanb. 1961INnot in their usual nameIndian 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çavan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish caván, from Tagalog kaban as "Manila cavan", via Cebuano as the "provincial cavan". Recorded by Irish first names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Çavan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 601 people named Çavan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavan. After it come Türkiye, Belgium, Spain and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Çavan most common?
- Çavan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 553 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Çavan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 601 people named Çavan in 2010, about 1 in 553 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7avanThe 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, “Çavan” — ranked 9476th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.