Kadan

surname · Latin script

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

/kadan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kadan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
  • BRBrazil1 in 8.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kadan 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.

United States (measured from records)

138 people, 2010

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Kadan 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 Kadan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1381 in 2.4M463Kadan104
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M24——
IN India141 in 95M14Kadan13
BE Belgium81 in 1.5M8—1
GY Guyana7as Khadan1 in 107K7—1
PL Poland41 in 9.6M3—1

138 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Kadan is also recorded as 3 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 Kadaň

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Khadan, Kadãn

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Khadan

45 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Mikuláš of Kadaň, b. 1350Roland Kadan, b. 1961Nikita Kadan, b. 1982Ursula Kadan, b. 1988

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)

FormalSayın Kadan,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Kadan,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Kadan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020143#125,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010138#124,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000118#132,259
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#173,031
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—24#8,021
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—14#98,280
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#80,230
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520254#621
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#341,426
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#343,904

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

How do you pronounce Kadan?
A machine transcription gives /kadan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Kadan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 138 people named Kadan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kadan.
Where is Kadan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kadan is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kadan?
In the United States, the national register counted 138 people named Kadan in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Kadan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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