Kocan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of an Old Slavic personal name, Chotimir, Polish Chocimir, or possibly from kocan ‘cob’ (Polish kaczan)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kocan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 819K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 35Kas Derebaşı
- PLPoland1 in 88K
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 Kocan 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 named Derebaşı, est.
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 Derebaşı in TR Türkiye.
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)
from a pet form of an Old Slavic personal name, Chotimir, Polish Chocimir, or possibly from kocan ‘cob’ (Polish kaczan).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kocan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Derebaşı | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Kocan | 1 |
| PL Poland | 436 | 1 in 88K | 222 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 406 | 1 in 819K | 414 | Kocan | 148 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Kocan | 42 |
| SE Sweden | 57 | 1 in 179K | 57 | Kocan | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 46 | 1 in 183K | 46 | Kocan | 8 |
| HR Croatia | 22 | 1 in 192K | 22 | — | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kocan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic or status name for someone who lived in a cottage, from koca ‘cottage’.
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)
- Barbara Kocanb. 1931PLPolish female politician * 1931
- Stanisław Kocanb. 1946PLPolish musician (1946-2007)
- Edina Kocanb. 2002LULuxembourgish association football player
- Maciej KocanUSPh.D. University of California, Santa Barbara 1994
- Daniel Kocan, Jr.USPh.D. Columbia University 1965
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 414 | #53,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 406 | #51,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 222 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 222 | #14,870 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 214 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 214 | #15,144 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 57 | #11,330 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kocan mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of an Old Slavic personal name, Chotimir, Polish Chocimir, or possibly from kocan ‘cob’ (Polish kaczan). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kocan?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kocan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Derebaşı in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kocan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kocan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kocan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 436 people named Kocan in 2026, about 1 in 88 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/kocanThe 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, “Kocan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.