Kačan

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

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Kačan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

  • HRCroatia1 in 45K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 227K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kačan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

696 named Kachan, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
20 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
KačanLatin(measured from records)
КачанCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Kačan is found

(measured from records)

Kačan 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 Kačan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland696as Kachan1 in 55K361——
HR Croatia941 in 45K94Kačan20
BR Brazil81as Kachan1 in 2.6M81——
ES Spain41as Kachan1 in 1.2M41——
CH Switzerland371 in 227K37—1
CZ Czechia101 in 1.1M10——

696 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Kačan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Türkiye

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Kacan, Kaçan, Kačán

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kacan, Kaçan

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Kaçan, Kacan, Kac̆an

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kacan, Kaçan

  • Lithuanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania

    Also written Kacan, Kaçan

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye

    Also written Kacan, Kaçan

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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalPoštovani Kačan,Dear Kačan, (English)
InformalPoštovani Kačan,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Kačan?
In Poland, the national register counted about 696 people named Kachan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Croatia, Brazil, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Kačan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kačan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kačan?
In Croatia, the national register counted 94 people named Kačan in 2021, about 1 in 45 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, “Kačan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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