Karakan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karakan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Bir tür dağ ağacı.
- DKDenmark1 in 217K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
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 Karakan 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 217K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 named การะกัน, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled การะกัน in TH Thailand.
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)
Bir tür dağ ağacı.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karakan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 287K | #15,622 | การะกัน | 30 |
| DK Denmark | 27 | 1 in 217K | 27 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 5 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Karakan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, acacia
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In bik, plural of kakan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, cockroach
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In trk-pro, акация
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 27 | #17,995 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #72,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #197,925 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #267,651 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Karakan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Bir tür dağ ağacı.
- In which country does Karakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people named การะกัน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karakan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karakan is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 217 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karakan?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 27 people named Karakan, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karakanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Karakan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.