Baçan

surname · Latin script

Baçan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 176K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 488K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

434 people

Record sources
12 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bacan in TR Türkiye.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Baçan 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.

Where Baçan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4341 in 488K434——
ES Spain341 in 1.5M34—1
TR Türkiye≈27 est.≈1 in 3M—Bacan12
HR Croatia241 in 176K32——
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——

434 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Baçan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States

    Also written Bacan, Baćan

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Bacan, Bačan, Bàcaň

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Bačan, Baćan, Bacan, Bacán

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Baçan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Baçan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 434 people named Baçan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Baçan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baçan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 176 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Baçan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 434 people named Baçan, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.

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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, “Baçan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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