Caën

surname · Latin script

Caën is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia
  • PTPortugal
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

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 Caen in FR France, BR Brazil, BO Bolivia and 2 more.

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)

recorded in Korean

프랑스 북부 노르망디 지방에 있는 옛 도시.

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caën counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Caën is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—46Caen1
BR Brazil——Caen8
BO Bolivia——Caen1
PT Portugal——Caen1
MX Mexico——Caen6
BE Belgium—128——

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Caën is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Caen

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Caën 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 Caën have the most bearers?
Caën is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled caen.

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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, “Caën”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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