Chauhan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃawhən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chauhan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.4K
- INIndia1 in 4.3K
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 Chauhan 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.
- India (measured from records)
- #252 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 945 (inferred from the name graph)
307,410 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sohan in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chauhan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #41 | 307,410 | 1 in 4.3K | 307K | Chauhan | 291 |
| BD Bangladesh | #445 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Sohan | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Chauhan | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 2 | Sohan | 39 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #57 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Chauhan | 65 |
| BH Bahrain | #60 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 945 | — | Chauhan | 13 |
| QA Qatar | #148 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Chauhan | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | #103 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Chauhan | 15 |
307,410 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
- Hemant Chauhanb. 1955INIndian singer
- Gajendra Chauhanb. 1956INIndian actor (born 1956)
- Mohit Chauhanb. 1960INIndian pop and playback singer
- Anuja Chauhanb. 1970INIndian writer
- Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhanb. 1975INIndian film director
- Sunidhi Chauhanb. 1983INIndian playback singer
- Shaurya Chauhanb. 1983INIndian television actor & host
- Akshay Chauhanb. 1990INIndian cricketer
- Ishita Chauhanb. 1999INIndian actress
- Hemen Chauhanactor
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 307K | #81 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 28K | #39 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Chauhan?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃawhən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chauhan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 307 thousand people named Chauhan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chauhan.
- How common is the name Chauhan?
- In India, the national register counted 307,410 people named Chauhan, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chauhan compared with other names?
- In India, Chauhan is the 41st most common surname of 1,492,515 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/chauhanThe 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, “Chauhan” — the 41st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.