KaZan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: kettle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kazan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
KaZan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 15K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Turkish loanword in eastern Slavic languages kazan ‘kettle’, ‘boiler’, ‘furnace’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How KaZan is read(measured from records)
KaZan is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish79%
kettle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Olumlu etkiler bırakan kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English10%
/. Elia, US actor; river, Canada
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
city, Russia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
KaZan 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.
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. 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)
KaZan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a Turkish loanword in eastern Slavic languages kazan ‘kettle’, ‘boiler’, ‘furnace’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from Hebrew chazan, an occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Molly Kazanb. 1906USAmerican writer
- Chris Kazanb. 1938USAmerican screenwriter (1938-1991)
- Lainie Kazanb. 1942USAmerican actress and singer (born 1940)
- Nicholas Kazanb. 1945USAmerican screenwriter
- Lucas Kazanb. 1965ITItalian gay pornography film director
- Rabia Kazanb. 1976TRTurkish journalist (born 1976)
- Zoe Kazanb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Maya Kazanb. 1986USAmerican actress
- Elena KazanDEGerman-Russian actress
- Frances KazanUSwriter
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 29 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 590 | #40,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 564 | #39,052 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 543 | #38,320 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name KaZan come from?
- from a Turkish loanword in eastern Slavic languages kazan ‘kettle’, ‘boiler’, ‘furnace’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce KaZan?
- A machine transcription gives /kazan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name KaZan mean?
- In Turkish, kettle
- In which country does KaZan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named KaZan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KaZan.
- How common is the name KaZan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 564 people named KaZan in 2010, about 1 in 590 thousand residents.
- How common is KaZan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, KaZan is the 574th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about KaZan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kazanThe 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, “KaZan” — the 574th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.