Cakan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ʒakan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Cakan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 151K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 227K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çakan in TR Türkiye, AT Austria, CY Cyprus and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cakan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #587 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Çakan | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Cakan | 54 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Çakan | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Çakan | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Çakan | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Çakan | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | Çakan | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 28 | 1 in 151K | 28 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Cakan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Chakan.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In bnt-pro, be restless; shake, intr.
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, s'agiter; trembler
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 37 | #23,367 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Cakan?
- In Turkish /ʒakan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Cakan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çakan.
- How common is the name Cakan?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 37 people named Cakan in 2024, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
- How common is Cakan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cakan is the 587th most common surname of 619,652 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/cakanThe 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, “Cakan” — the 587th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.