Kashtan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kæʃtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kashtan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 751K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 859K
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 Kashtan 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 751K (inferred from the name graph)
176 named קשטן, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled קשטן in IL Israel, PL Poland, UY Uruguay 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kashtan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 176as קשטן | 1 in 49K | 176 | קשטן | 28 |
| US United States | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 106 | Kashtan | 134 |
| PL Poland | 51 | 1 in 751K | 29 | קשטן | 2 |
| IN India | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Kashtan | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Kashtan | 5 |
| MA Morocco | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | קשטן | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Kashtan | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | קשטן | 1 |
176 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Kashtanb. 1909CACanadian politician
- Yeshayahu Kashtanb. 1927ILIsraeli poet
- Dror Kashtanb. 1944ILIsraeli footballer and football coach (1944–2024)
- Nadav Kashtanb. 1953senior lecture at HUJI
- Boris Kashtanresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-5138-3118
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,203 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #84,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kashtan?
- A machine transcription gives /kæʃtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kashtan have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 176 people named קשטן, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kashtan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kashtan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 751 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kashtan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 104 people named Kashtan in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kashtanThe 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, “Kashtan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.