Chouhan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃuhæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chouhan 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 1.2Kas Chauhan(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.3Kas Sohan
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.4Kas Chauhan
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 Chouhan 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 named Chauhan
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est., as Chauhan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chauhan in IN India, KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates and 3 more and 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chouhan 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 | 307,410as Chauhan | 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)
- Rounak Chouhanb. 2007INbadminton player
- Shikha ChouhanINIndian canoeist
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
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 Chouhan?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃuhæn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chouhan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 307 thousand people named Chauhan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chouhan?
- In India, the national register counted 307,410 people named Chauhan, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Chouhan compared with other names?
- In India, Chouhan is the 41st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chouhan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chouhanThe 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, “Chouhan” — the 41st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.