Capan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæpən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Capan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 106K
- BEBelgium1 in 175K
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
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
926 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.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Capan 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 | #645 | 926 | 1 in 4.6K | 926 | Capan | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Capan | 2 |
| US United States | — | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 381 | Capan | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 778K | 13 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Capan | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 67 | 1 in 175K | 67 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | — |
926 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Capan 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 Galician, third-person plural present indicative of capar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, food warehouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CAPÁN, capanuri, s. n. (Turcism înv.) Magazie care servea ca depozit (de alimente) pentru trupele turcești.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ozan Capanb. 1995TRTurkish-German association football player (born 1995)
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 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 926 | #612 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 848 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 379 | #57,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 67 | #21,096 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Capan?
- A machine transcription gives /kæpən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Capan have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 926 people named Capan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled capan.
- Where is Capan most common?
- Capan is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Capan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 926 people named Capan in 2021, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Capan compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Capan is the 645th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Capan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/capanThe 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, “Capan” — the 645th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.