Kavun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: melon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kavun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Кавун(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 104Kas Кавун
- PLPoland1 in 141K
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 Kavun 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Кавун, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кавун in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 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)
melon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kavun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Кавун | 39 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Кавун | 118 |
| PL Poland | 271 | 1 in 141K | 147 | Kavun | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 52 | Кавун | 26 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Кавун | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Кавун | 7 |
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 Russians, by region of residence; 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)
- Vasyl Kavunb. 1938UApolitician (1938-2009)
- Andrei Kavunb. 1969UARussian film director
- Maksym Kawunb. 1978UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian local historian
- Veronika Kavunb. 1985UAUkrainian poet
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 147 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 147 | #21,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 124 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 124 | #24,769 |
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 Kavun mean, and where does it come from?
- melon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kavun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Кавун in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kavun most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kavun is densest in Poland — about 1 in 141 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kavun?
- In Poland, the national register counted 271 people named Kavun in 2026, about 1 in 141 thousand 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/kavunThe 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, “Kavun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.