Cahun
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kawn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cahun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 45K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.8M
- USUnited States≈1 in 46M
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
95 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Cahun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 95 | 1 in 45K | 95 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | Cahun | 10 |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 46M | — | Cahun | 10 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | 109 | Cahun | 44 |
95 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Léon Cahunb. 1841FRFrench writer (1841–1900)
- Claude Cahunb. 1894FRFrench artist (1894–1954)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 109 | #1,703 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 95 | #8,284 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 82 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Cahun?
- A machine transcription gives /kawn/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cahun have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 95 people named Cahun, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cahun most common?
- Cahun is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 45 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cahun?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 95 people named Cahun in 2021, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cahun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cahunThe 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, “Cahun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.