Chanan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkænən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chanan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (s’)embourber, rester en panne.
- THThailand≈1 in 5.2Kas ชานนท์(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 190K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 134Kas ชานนท์
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 Chanan 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named ชานนท์, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
17 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ชานนท์ in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia and Chanin in US United States.
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(measured from records)
(s’)embourber, rester en panne
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chanan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #272 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | #98,982 | ชานนท์ | 121 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | ชานนท์ | 30 |
| US United States | — | 416as Chanin | 1 in 800K | 463 | Chanin | 67 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 91 | 1 in 190K | 75 | Chanan | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 13as Chanin | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Chanan 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 Breton, (s’)embourber, rester en panne
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Annasb. 40not in their usual name1st century CE High Priest of the Roman province of Iudaea
- Ananus ben Ananusb. 50ILnot in their usual name1st century High Priest of Israel (d. 68 CE)
- Chanan Oppenheimerb. 1899ILIsraeli botanist
- Hanan Shadmib. 1914ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli educator and author
- Hanan Goldblattb. 1941ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor
- Hanan Poratb. 1943ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi and educator (1943-2011)
- Hanan Melcerb. 1951ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli judge
- Chanan de Langeb. 1955ILIsraeli painter
- Hanan Ginatb. 1957ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Hanan Ben Arib. 1988ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer-songwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 188 | #32,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 76 | #32,104 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 75 | #5,261 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 32 | #15,109 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #16,901 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #45,607 |
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
- What does the name Chanan mean, and where does it come from?
- (s’)embourber, rester en panne Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Chanan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkænən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Chanan a male or female name?
- Chanan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Chanan?
- In the etymology graph, Hanan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Chanan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named ชานนท์ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chanan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chanan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 190 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chanan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 91 people named Chanan, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
- How common is Chanan compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Chanan is the 272nd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chanan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chananThe 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, “Chanan” — the 272nd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.