Chapon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: capon; a castrated cockerel or the meat thereof
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃapɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chapon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 221K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
capon; a castrated cockerel or the meat thereof
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chapon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 452 | Chapon | 241 |
| US United States | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Chapon | 41 |
| BE Belgium | 53 | 1 in 221K | 53 | Chapon | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Chapon | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | 7 | 1 in 781K | 7 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Chapon 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 enm, alternative form of capoun
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)
- Alfred Chaponb. 1834FRFrench architect (1834-1893)
- Jules Chaponb. 1839FRFrench journalist (1839-1906)
- Henri-Louis Chaponb. 1845FRFrench catholic bishop (1845-1925)
- Albert Chaponb. 1865FRFrench publisher
- Marguerite Chaponb. 1884FRFrench communist
- Jules Chaponb. 1914NLartist from the Netherlands (1914-2007)
- Jean-Luc Chaponb. 1942FRFrench politician
- François-Xavier Chaponb. 1982FRFrench handball player
- Pierre-Marie Chaponb. 1982FRFrench geographer
- Denis Chaponanimator
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 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 657 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 635 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 576 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 552 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 529 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 482 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 460 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 452 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 431 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 374 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 295 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 53 | #25,157 |
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
- What does the name Chapon mean, and where does it come from?
- capon; a castrated cockerel or the meat thereof Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Chapon?
- In the etymology graph, Capon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Chapon?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃapɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Chapon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Chapon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chapon.
- How common is the name Chapon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 53 people named Chapon in 2008, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chapon?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaponThe 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, “Chapon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.