Chakan
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chakan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 19M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750Kas Chacan
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.5Mas Чакан
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chakan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)
≈47 named Чакан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Чакан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chakan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Чакан | 58 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Чакан | 7 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Чакан | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Чакан | 5 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1as Chacan | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Chakan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "battle-axe."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #316,419 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
Reference works 1
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- In which country does Chakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 people named Чакан in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chakan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chakan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 19 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chakan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Chakan in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Chakan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chakanThe 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, “Chakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.