Kajan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kajan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 108K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 245K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
535 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Kajan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 535 | 1 in 10K | 535 | Kajan | 17 |
| IN India | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | 4 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 39 | 1 in 108K | 39 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 35 | 1 in 306K | 35 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 245K | 58 | — | — |
535 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kajan 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 Swedish, definite singular of kaja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Arvid Kajánb. 1898FIFinnish journalist
- Ibrahim Kajanb. 1944BABosnian writer
- Kosmas Kajanb. 1969IDIndonesian politician (born 1969)
- Milan Kajanb. 1970SKSlovak male curler and coach
- Gabriela Kajanováb. 1975SKnot in their usual nameSlovak female curler
- Selma Kajanb. 1991AUAustralian middle-distance runner
- Tina KajanSIresearcher
- Ewald Kajanbotanist
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 535 | #3,250 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 259 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 39 | #15,637 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 35 | #37,192 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 35 | #12,464 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 31 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,688 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #3,989 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #23,065 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #43,390 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kajan?
- A machine transcription gives /kəʒən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kajan have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 535 people named Kajan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kajan.
- Where is Kajan most common?
- Kajan is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kajan?
- In Finland, the national register counted 535 people named Kajan, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kajan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kajanThe 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, “Kajan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.