Kapan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: trap (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kapan̪/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Kapan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Kapan is also written Капан in Cyrillic.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 195K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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 Kapan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kapan in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Капан in KZ Kazakhstan.
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.
How to pronounce Kapan
- Turkish:/kapan̪/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)trap
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kapan is found
(measured from records)Kapan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Kapan | 59 |
| IN India | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.8M | 1 | — | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kapan | 15 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 104as Капан | 1 in 184K | 104 | Капан | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Kapan | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 43 | 1 in 195K | 43 | Kapan | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Kapan | 4 |
| HR Croatia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Kapan | 5 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Kapan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, genitive singular of kappa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bvk, thick, as a plank
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kyi, thick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gag, jail
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kapan mean, and where does it come from?
- trap Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kapan?
- In the etymology graph, Капкан is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kapan?
- In Turkish /kapan̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kapan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Kapan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kapan. After it come India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kapan?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 43 people named Kapan in 2024, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kapan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kapanThe 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, “Kapan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.