Chetan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chetan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: jeter, lancer ; tomber (un vêtement).

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 161K
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 169K

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,100 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
283 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChetanLatin(measured from records)
চেতনBengali(measured from records)
체탄Hangul(measured from records)
චේතනSinhala(measured from records)

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)

jeter, lancer ; tomber (un vêtement)

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chetan 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.

Where Chetan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈6,100 est.≈1 in 43K—Chetan11
NP Nepal—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Chetan30
US United States—2,0661 in 161K2.1KChetan283
PK Pakistan—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 169K—Chetan20
GB United Kingdom—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 63KlistedChetan112
AE United Arab Emirates—≈880 est.≈1 in 11K—Chetan62
OM Oman#800≈190 est.≈1 in 25K—Chetan8
QA Qatar#976≈160 est.≈1 in 15K—Chetan17
BH Bahrain#875≈76 est.≈1 in 20K—Chetan7
IN India#731——133Chetan265

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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chetan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chețan

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Chétan, Cheţan, Chétàn

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Четан

  • Bulgarian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Четан, Cetan, Četan

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, India, Spain

    Also written Chețan

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Čhëťãń

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chetan 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, jeter, lancer ; tomber (un vêtement)

    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)

18001850190019502000Black Hawk, b. 1832Chetan Anand, b. 1921Chetan Chauhan, b. 1947Chetan Anand, b. 1980Chetan Kumar, b. 1983Chetan Potu, b. 1994Chetan Paliwal, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Chetan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—133#23,517
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—42#3,188
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Chetan mean, and where does it come from?
jeter, lancer ; tomber (un vêtement) Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
Is Chetan a male or female name?
Chetan 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.
In which country does Chetan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Chetan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chetan.
How common is the name Chetan?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,066 people named Chetan in 2020, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
How common is Chetan compared with other names?
In India, Chetan is the 731st most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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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, “Chetan” — the 731st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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