Kaplún

surname · Latin script

Meaning: 'capon'

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 301K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 100K
  • FIFinland1 in 174K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

388 people, 2010

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kaplun in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

'capon'

Sources 1

  • Russian Surnames

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaplún 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 Kaplún is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3881 in 857K497Kaplun30
PL Poland3841 in 100K198——
AR Argentina1511 in 301K151Kaplun39
ES Spain371 in 1.4M37Kaplun8
FI Finland321 in 174K32——
UY Uruguay191 in 178K19Kaplun6
SE Sweden141 in 729K14—1

388 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Kaplún is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḳaplun, Kaplun

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kaplun

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Croatia, Israel

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Kaplun, Каплун

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kaplún under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kaplún mean, and where does it come from?
'capon' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
In which country does Kaplún have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 388 people named Kaplún, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaplun.
Where is Kaplún most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaplún is densest in Poland — about 1 in 100 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kaplún?
In the United States, the national register counted 388 people named Kaplún in 2010, about 1 in 857 thousand 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, “Kaplún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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