Caran

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Güzel kokan bir tür çiçek

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɑɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 264K
  • ARArgentina1 in 297K

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈28,000 people, est.

Sources
14 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Güzel kokan bir tür çiçek.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caran 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 Caran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈28,000 est.≈1 in 47K11Caran14
BR Brazil8031 in 264K803——
AR Argentina1531 in 297K153——
US United States1401 in 2.4M196Caran5
PH Philippines≈120 est.≈1 in 900K—Caran2
AU Australia≈45 est.≈1 in 562K1——
CZ Czechia211 in 510K21——

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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Caran is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ćaran, Çaran

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cáran, Çaran, Carán

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cāraṇ, Ćaran, Çaran

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Ćaran, Царан, Čaran, Чаран

35 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Caran is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kurdish, Friends, peers

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Welsh, third-person plural future colloquial of caru

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Scottish Gaelic, plural of car

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, hearthstone

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Caran जी,Respected Caran ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Caran जी,Hi Caran, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Caran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—803#11,225
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000167#100,194
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—153—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010140#123,064
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020114#146,495
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—21#52,227
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#193,690
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Caran?
A machine transcription gives /kɑɹən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Caran mean?
Recorded meaning: Güzel kokan bir tür çiçek.
In which country does Caran have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Caran in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caran.
How common is the name Caran?
In Brazil, the national register counted 803 people named Caran, about 1 in 264 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, “Caran”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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