Chagnon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de (Le) Chagnon, nom de plusieurs localités en France
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chagnon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 171K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 510K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
1,943 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de (Le) Chagnon, nom de plusieurs localités en France
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chagnon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,943 | 1 in 171K | 1.9K | Chagnon | 124 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | Chagnon | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 10 | 1 in 510K | 10 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
1,943 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Gustave Chagnonb. 1871CACanadian entomologist
- Leon Chagnonb. 1902USAmerican baseball player
- André Chagnonb. 1928CACanadian businessman (1928–2022)
- Napoleon Chagnonb. 1938USAmerican anthropologist (1938–2019)
- Jacques Chagnonb. 1952CACanadian politician (born 1952)
- Johanne Chagnonb. 1952CAphotographer (born 1952)
- Pierre Chagnonb. 1957CACanadian actor
- Gilles Chagnonb. 1972FRFrench teacher
- Frédéric Chagnonb. 1992CAprofessional Canadian football linebacker
- Cheryle Chagnon-GreyeyesCApolitician, leader of the Green Party of Alberta
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,382 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #64,331 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,389 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #316,117 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Chagnon mean?
- Recorded meaning: de (Le) Chagnon, nom de plusieurs localités en France
- In which country does Chagnon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Chagnon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chagnon.
- Where is Chagnon most common?
- Chagnon is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 171 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chagnon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,943 people named Chagnon in 2010, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chagnonThe 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, “Chagnon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.