Chaton
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: kitten, kitty (baby cat)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ʃa.tɔ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Chaton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 1.5M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)kitten, kitty (baby cat)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chaton is read
(measured from records)Chaton is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French87%
kitten, kitty (baby cat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.8%
Collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chaton 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 | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 101 | Chaton | 174 |
| MU Mauritius | #434 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Chaton | 7 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.8M | — | Chaton | 30 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 2 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Chaton | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Chaton | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Chaton | 6 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)- Jeanne Chatonb. 1899FRFrench historian
- Christian Chatonb. 1945FRFrench politician (1945)
- Anne-James Chatonb. 1970FRFrench poet and performance artist
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 150 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 107 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 106 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 55 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 54 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Chaton mean, and where does it come from?
- kitten, kitty (baby cat) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Chaton?
- In the etymology graph, Kasten is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Chaton?
- In French /ʃa.tɔ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Chaton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Chaton in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaton.
- How common is the name Chaton?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6 people named Chaton, about 1 in 8.3 million residents.
- How common is Chaton compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Chaton is the 434th most common surname of 1,496 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chatonThe 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, “Chaton” — the 434th most common surname in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.